Here is a snippet from my Salinas (California) Airshow report. The Thunderbirds were using a new "Victor 1" frequency for the formation, 139.225(AM).
Thunderbirds
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139.225 Victor 1 / Diamond
235.350 ?? / Solos
216.725 Public Address
216.925 Public Address
No ground frequency monitored, since the Thunderbirds were not staging at the demonstration site.
The Thunderbirds were staging out of Monterey airport to perform at the Salinas show site. I had been monitoring the public address frequencies, and heard the boss command that they switch over to victor 1.
After several scan cycles, where I could hear the boss over the PA frequency, but not over any previous frequency, I knew it was time to start searching. Included in the 'previously known' were all the latest additions from Larry Van Horn's Blog:
http://mt-milcom.blogspot.com/2008/04/late-breaking-news-another-new-tbird.html
The scan while search mode on my BCD-396T was useful to let me search the 138-144MHz military airband while looking for a new frequency. I finally got a confirmed hit that I could verify by the voice I had heard over the PA frequency and from my experience in knowing what the boss had sounded like.
Thunderbirds
============
139.225 Victor 1 / Diamond
235.350 ?? / Solos
216.725 Public Address
216.925 Public Address
No ground frequency monitored, since the Thunderbirds were not staging at the demonstration site.
The Thunderbirds were staging out of Monterey airport to perform at the Salinas show site. I had been monitoring the public address frequencies, and heard the boss command that they switch over to victor 1.
After several scan cycles, where I could hear the boss over the PA frequency, but not over any previous frequency, I knew it was time to start searching. Included in the 'previously known' were all the latest additions from Larry Van Horn's Blog:
http://mt-milcom.blogspot.com/2008/04/late-breaking-news-another-new-tbird.html
The scan while search mode on my BCD-396T was useful to let me search the 138-144MHz military airband while looking for a new frequency. I finally got a confirmed hit that I could verify by the voice I had heard over the PA frequency and from my experience in knowing what the boss had sounded like.
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