There is a ton of military traffic in and over Texas. But for some reason I'm having a problem with this thread right now and it doesn't seem like my replies are posting. I'll try again later if this one doesn't go through. I don't think the thread has been locked because it would not allow a person to even begin to make a reply.
We get a lot of the Randolph AETC aircraft that fly up here to Navy Fort Worth and shoot practice approaches as well as over to Sheppard Air Force Base where there is a seemingly unlimited amount of air to air traffic and Ops traffic in the 138 - 149.975 MHz range in the AM mode on the frequencies. In fact, the local F-16 fighter squadrons don't use that frequency range as much anymore and it seems to be 95% Air Education Training Command users on those VHF frequencies. At least that is the scenario up here in the n
North / Northeast Texas area around DFW.
I'd love to see a thread like this one get going again. I hear the trainers on a daily basis include on the weekends if the weather permits. But there is also a lot more. What I'm interested in is getting the frequencies for the MOAs down around the San Antonio and Austin areas. I can monitor as far south as Fort Hood from my location in Western Fort Worth. And I've been monitoring the military aviation traffic for almost 30 years. I did take a few years break until last year primarily because I've been doing this for so long.
One frequency I have recently started hearing again is the Houston Center 307.3 which is low altitude over Fredericksburg, Texas. That seems a little strange to me but I have confirmed it when I was down there before as being a good frequency. I'm just mystified why I'm picking up a low altitude frequency in that area and I am wondering if the US IFR supplemen and other publications might have that one mislabeled and it might really be a high-altitude frequency?
Can you share any of the ranges or MOAs down in the San Antonio / Austin regions being used? I can post some of the same type of frequencies from up here.
I am legally blind nowadays and it takes me a little longer to use Google Voice to Text and then make corrections as I have to go through and proofread especially when typing frequencies since Google always messes those up
I'm not thinking that this reply is actually going to post right now but I'm trying it again anyway. And if it does, then that would be great and I would love to get and share some information soon.
Thanks for starting up the thread and hopefully it will be working for me this time. And if not this time, hopefully soon! I look forward to sharing and getting some good information would those who were interested.
PS, as you can see in this screenshot all of the red boxes which are military operations areas and ranges and how they are all over Texas. They're all over the country of course but this is a good screenshot if some of the busier Texas MOAs and Ranges. It would be great if we could confirm the frequencies used in each and every one of them.
Just as a starter here are some frequencies for the Brownwood MOA complex which is to the southwest of Fort Worth. A lot of good exercises and traffic can be heard in this busy military operations area.
317.7 - Hornet Range
346.3 - Tomcat Range
282.2 - Loon Range
These are a few of the more busy ones in the Brownwood MOA. Do you have any of the frequencies used in the San Antonio area MOAs? Thanks for any help.
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Brian (COMMSCAN)