Air-Evac or PHI?
PHI/Air-Evac
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Air-Evac or PHI?
sgtech
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Not sure, just started listening to them, but they are designated "Med 1" through like "Med 9". Which would that be?
nd5y
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The database shows 151.5575 as PHI in Houston.
As far as I can tell PHI helicopter callsigns are "Med #". At least the one in Fort Worth is "Med 8".
They might do things different down on the coast where they have lots of other PHI non-medical helicopters.
Air Evac Lifeteam callsigns are "Air Evac #"
As far as I can tell PHI helicopter callsigns are "Med #". At least the one in Fort Worth is "Med 8".
They might do things different down on the coast where they have lots of other PHI non-medical helicopters.
Air Evac Lifeteam callsigns are "Air Evac #"
texasemt13
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Let me correct/expand some of what I posted above:
AirLife is out of San Antonio and is operated by Baptist Health System. They operate 3 Bell 430s (AirLife 1, AirLife 2 and AirLife 3) as well as reserve Piper Cheyenne contracted from Air Medical, Ltd. in New Braunfels (contracted out when a helo is in for maintenance). They are dispatched on 3 VHF conventional channels.
STARFlight is out of Austin, controled by Air Operations Division within Travis County. They have 2 Eurocopter EC-145s (STARFlight 1 and STARFlight 2). They are dispatched on GATRRS. They are not part of a hosptial system.
I recently spotted a Eurocopter at Allied Aviation at San Antonio Int'l Airport, that was yellow, that I suspected to be STARFlight (since they're yellow). Instead it's a new air medical helo called AirCare, operated by the Methodist Health System in San Antonio. They began operations in October 2009. See their page here. The Eurocopter EC-135 is based at Methodist Stone Oak Hospital and I do not know how they are dispatched yet. I see this helo flying around a lot, it's mostly yellow with some colorful ribbon accents all over the fuselage, which you can see better here. The site says it is operated by REACH Air Medical Services. I'm trying to search for a FCC license for REACH but I'm "quag-mired" through over 90 pages of Nextel licenses- that's bull****. All that to find no license for "REACH" or an applicable "Methodist" license.
AirEvac in the area uses a mix of VHF and UHF conventional freqs. AirEvac used 2 digit identifiers, for example "AirEvac Five-Zero" for AE San Marcos. (Their FCC license, WPLI523, comes back to Northside ISD- is this correct?).
AirLife is out of San Antonio and is operated by Baptist Health System. They operate 3 Bell 430s (AirLife 1, AirLife 2 and AirLife 3) as well as reserve Piper Cheyenne contracted from Air Medical, Ltd. in New Braunfels (contracted out when a helo is in for maintenance). They are dispatched on 3 VHF conventional channels.
STARFlight is out of Austin, controled by Air Operations Division within Travis County. They have 2 Eurocopter EC-145s (STARFlight 1 and STARFlight 2). They are dispatched on GATRRS. They are not part of a hosptial system.
I recently spotted a Eurocopter at Allied Aviation at San Antonio Int'l Airport, that was yellow, that I suspected to be STARFlight (since they're yellow). Instead it's a new air medical helo called AirCare, operated by the Methodist Health System in San Antonio. They began operations in October 2009. See their page here. The Eurocopter EC-135 is based at Methodist Stone Oak Hospital and I do not know how they are dispatched yet. I see this helo flying around a lot, it's mostly yellow with some colorful ribbon accents all over the fuselage, which you can see better here. The site says it is operated by REACH Air Medical Services. I'm trying to search for a FCC license for REACH but I'm "quag-mired" through over 90 pages of Nextel licenses- that's bull****. All that to find no license for "REACH" or an applicable "Methodist" license.
AirEvac in the area uses a mix of VHF and UHF conventional freqs. AirEvac used 2 digit identifiers, for example "AirEvac Five-Zero" for AE San Marcos. (Their FCC license, WPLI523, comes back to Northside ISD- is this correct?).
nd5y
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REACH Purpose - Communications Center
I wonder if all their communications are on SkyTrac.
I wonder if all their communications are on SkyTrac.
texasemt13
CenTex DBA
Italics are usually thoughts coursing through my brain at the time. I was pissed at Nextel earlier, way too many licenses, in every damn county in the US of A.
Thanks for finding that REACH site nd5y. That's pretty neat. If you click "Inside the Communications Center" it shows a few pics. One clearly shows a Nextel phone at a dispatch console.
Here's a link to SkyTrac voice communications overview. Looks pretty high-speed. Their satellite transceivers use 1616-1626.5MHz...
nd5y
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rbarker
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152.3075 in Florence
I am hearing statewide traffic on 152.3075 which is listed to be Air Evac but it shows to be an input in Radio Reference but i'm hearing it as an output. The transmitter seems to be near Florence or Georgetown (near Austin)
I am hearing statewide traffic on 152.3075 which is listed to be Air Evac but it shows to be an input in Radio Reference but i'm hearing it as an output. The transmitter seems to be near Florence or Georgetown (near Austin)
nd5y
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Interesting. The frequencies in the db are backwards from what is on the license FCC Callsign WQEP621 Details and it is listed twice under Georgetown and Florence. They also have a mobile only frequency 159.720 licensed. Anybody know if the UHF freq in the db is used?
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texasemt13
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Thanks, good catch.
nd5y thanks for finding that license, I drive past the Stone Oak Methodist on occasion but have never seen the helo pad.
Has anyone put in a submission to the db?
nd5y
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I haven't because it isn't near me and I can't hear it or verify it. Somebody down there needs to figure it out what exactly Stat Air is using and submit it.
I don't know if the UHF frequency listed in the database (in two places) is valid. The callsign shown is for the VHF repeater. There doesn't need to be 3 listings for the same VHF repeater. According to their web site they don't even have an aircraft in Temple.
What little I know I put on the wiki page.
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What is the AE Bird Number for Florance? Do you have the tone also? With AE input and output rules don't seem to apply.
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I'm looking in the FCC DB on this and not seeing much, I have AE licensed in Laredo on 159.7200 on a Pending FCC License, FRN: [FONT="]0004321812 [/FONT]as of last week. Guess I need to look again.
sgtech
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Correction:
Input is 159.765 to 151.565 in Houston.
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Does anyone have the info. on frequencies used by CareFlite in the Dallas area?
nd5y
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Did you look in the database?
Medevac Scanner Frequencies and Radio Frequency Reference
Medevac Scanner Frequencies and Radio Frequency Reference
As stated above, 460.65 is fully in use in Abilene. Very busy hub around here for airevac lifeteam flights in and out of Hendrick hospital.
As far as skytrac, at least in these parts, it's only used for the gps monitoring [every so often "cent-com" will say "airevac-63 on Abilene tower, we have a positive skytrac"]. . Although every 15 minutes or so the pilot still does a uhf radio position report, giving fuel, long/lat, eta etc.. Patient reports to the hospital are still given over Texas med-1.
The suggestion to listen to uhf and vhf freques around 8:00 am for airevac radio checks is a good one. That's how I found them here on a business repeater about 2 years back.
We also have southwest airevac here in town, but it's simplex and a very very weak signal from my
location.
-Johnny
As far as skytrac, at least in these parts, it's only used for the gps monitoring [every so often "cent-com" will say "airevac-63 on Abilene tower, we have a positive skytrac"]. . Although every 15 minutes or so the pilot still does a uhf radio position report, giving fuel, long/lat, eta etc.. Patient reports to the hospital are still given over Texas med-1.
The suggestion to listen to uhf and vhf freques around 8:00 am for airevac radio checks is a good one. That's how I found them here on a business repeater about 2 years back.
We also have southwest airevac here in town, but it's simplex and a very very weak signal from my
location.
-Johnny
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