pilotman6012
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Just picked up a new frequency i have never heard before and not listed on any of my lists i do not have an id on it yet,126.2750,i am right smack in the middle of the Memphis/Atlanta Center Airspace,any help appreciated.
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126.275 is listed as a Fort Worth Center high altitude frequency, Sector 86. From what I know from limited monitoring of that area is that Sector 86 is not used very often as the sector is usually combined into Sector 52 where they use 132.275 to cover both areas. Sector 86 is not a big area so I'm guessing it's only used when there is very high traffic volume for short periods of time or needed to handle weather deviations when there are thunderstorms around ?
Depending on where you are exactly, and how good your reception capabilities are, that area could be in range from the "middle of the Memphis/Altanta Center Airspace" ? A good clue would be if you are also able to hear traffic on 132.275.
Can you give us more details on what you are hearing ? How strong are the signals ? If you can hear any airline traffic, post a few flight numbers and what frequency they are handed off to and I can confirm the Sector pretty easily.
AlphaFive
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126.2750 new freq.
I'll throw in my 1 and 1/3 cents worth. It is most likely to the west of you. From Asheville, I can stretch my reception to the edge of the Memphis ARTCC, and can get as far south as Huntsville/Gunter. I have never run across your new freq. Odds are it's west...... hope this helps a little.
I'll throw in my 1 and 1/3 cents worth. It is most likely to the west of you. From Asheville, I can stretch my reception to the edge of the Memphis ARTCC, and can get as far south as Huntsville/Gunter. I have never run across your new freq. Odds are it's west...... hope this helps a little.
I just noticed your location is listed in Athens, Alabama. If that is where you are monitoring from then it probably isn't Fort Worth Sector 86 as that would be about 350nm away. (theoretical range at 41,000 feet is around 250nm).
I don't see anything else listed as a possibility, so very interested in what you are hearing.
I don't see anything else listed as a possibility, so very interested in what you are hearing.
pilotman6012
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I was not able to confirm any traffic,the scanner was scanning the VHF band for new frequencies and it was a new one,so i will plug it in and see what else pops up,it is also Chicago High Altitude freq as well,so i will have to further scanning and see thanks!
The southern border of that Chicago Sector is about 380nm north of Athens. If Fort Worth was using 126.275 as a sub for 132.27 in Sector 52, the eastern border of that sector would be about 300nm west of Athens.
Given the proximity to these two areas it would seem unlikely that 126.275 would be a new Center frequency north through west of Athens. Unless they have been recently changed ?
I'm curious what it could be as well. Please let us know if you actually hear anything on it.
AlphaFive
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126.2750
You are close enough to me in Alabama to make this frequency interesting.. I have put two different radios on it this morning. I'll give it a good all day run. I will certainly let you know if anyone sticks their head up and transmits. Take care
You are close enough to me in Alabama to make this frequency interesting.. I have put two different radios on it this morning. I'll give it a good all day run. I will certainly let you know if anyone sticks their head up and transmits. Take care
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126.275 KVUJ? perhaps, perhaps, perhaps
now bear (bare?) with me here folks, i realize i am in NC and AL is a bit of a hike but literally two days ago i got to see a CH-53 for the first time and found out it was CONDOR21. Why does that matter? He was calling out to Fayetteville (KFAY) Approach but transmitting on Stanly Co. (KVUJ) CTAF freq, which is 126.275, nowhere close to any of the KFAY App freqs, so presumably he hit the wrong preset cause as far as i know i never heard him call KVUJ.
the only reason i pipe up here is that, much to my amazement, i have never seen any listing anywhere, current or historical, showing anyone other than KVUJ ever being assigned 126.275, which is just kinda odd. now not to say this isn't something new that you have discovered though.
i also know that quite often C-130's and the occasional C-17 (THOR81 this morning in fact) from as far away as Ark. and Conn., in what are presumably routine day trips show up without notice at KVUJ. sometimes it'll be part of an exercise but more often they just swing thru, do a few touch and goes, wham bam thankyou ma'am, and i assume from analyzing reports online of ADS-B/MODE-S reported locations, go home.
The same goes for our NCANG C-130 Flights out of CLT. a recent example was an EPICxx flight was heard in Indiana in the A.M. on the same day I saw them doing low approaches at KVUJ in the P.M. certainly could have been different craft, but they only have 12 and can only keep so many in the air at a time with a peacetime maintenance schedule.
My bet is that some of these guys do these, what seems to us earthbound folk as looong range, flights with such regularity that they prob have presets for some rather far flung places punched in that they could easily accidentally hit.
and if we really wanna play 6 degrees from kevin bacon here, the ArNG UH-60s out of KRUQ, NW of KVUJ which are as common at KVUJ as the EPICs are, happen to be (military folks excuse my ignorance here) one battalion or company or something or other that ALL the rest, the other 3 or 4 sections of are based out of Dannelly Field i believe, or at least one of the airports near Montgomery AL. i have no clue if they ever go visiting back and forth, but i figured anyone not asleep by now would find that interesting too.
now bear (bare?) with me here folks, i realize i am in NC and AL is a bit of a hike but literally two days ago i got to see a CH-53 for the first time and found out it was CONDOR21. Why does that matter? He was calling out to Fayetteville (KFAY) Approach but transmitting on Stanly Co. (KVUJ) CTAF freq, which is 126.275, nowhere close to any of the KFAY App freqs, so presumably he hit the wrong preset cause as far as i know i never heard him call KVUJ.
the only reason i pipe up here is that, much to my amazement, i have never seen any listing anywhere, current or historical, showing anyone other than KVUJ ever being assigned 126.275, which is just kinda odd. now not to say this isn't something new that you have discovered though.
i also know that quite often C-130's and the occasional C-17 (THOR81 this morning in fact) from as far away as Ark. and Conn., in what are presumably routine day trips show up without notice at KVUJ. sometimes it'll be part of an exercise but more often they just swing thru, do a few touch and goes, wham bam thankyou ma'am, and i assume from analyzing reports online of ADS-B/MODE-S reported locations, go home.
The same goes for our NCANG C-130 Flights out of CLT. a recent example was an EPICxx flight was heard in Indiana in the A.M. on the same day I saw them doing low approaches at KVUJ in the P.M. certainly could have been different craft, but they only have 12 and can only keep so many in the air at a time with a peacetime maintenance schedule.
My bet is that some of these guys do these, what seems to us earthbound folk as looong range, flights with such regularity that they prob have presets for some rather far flung places punched in that they could easily accidentally hit.
and if we really wanna play 6 degrees from kevin bacon here, the ArNG UH-60s out of KRUQ, NW of KVUJ which are as common at KVUJ as the EPICs are, happen to be (military folks excuse my ignorance here) one battalion or company or something or other that ALL the rest, the other 3 or 4 sections of are based out of Dannelly Field i believe, or at least one of the airports near Montgomery AL. i have no clue if they ever go visiting back and forth, but i figured anyone not asleep by now would find that interesting too.
Interesting post, but I bit of a stretch I think. I'm not much of a mill air guy so no expert, but how often do transports like C-17's and C-130's use preset channels ? Given their range of operations it doesn't seem very practical ?
On the civilian side it could also be a pilot just selecting and checking in on the wrong frequency, not that uncommon. Or maybe the scanner just stopped on some static or interference ?
Seeing that KVUJ is about 340nm east of Athens it rules it out as a new high frequency to the east. Still could be lower or to the south maybe ?
Miami also uses 126.275, but that sector is way down south of the Bahamas. The RR database also shows it used as an air-air forestry frequency in Colorado.
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