Texas Military Activity and Frequencies

[Alliance01TX]

Texas Area USAF Tanker Radio Freq (AM Mode)

The attached PDF file/information is from last year and subject to change.

You will need to look at the Attached Map first & determine closest Tracks / Blocks.

A good Discone or Mil-Air Antenna (225-400 Mhz) helps - higher is better for long-range.

Next, look up the Primary/Secondary (Entry / Exit) Frequencies on the attached PDF for the Texas areas.

NOTE: I could not load an Excel file - so you will have to work the PDF layout best you can / or just load all the Freq's (AM Mode). That is the easy solution....

Also, check FAA NOTAMS for your closest FAA Center (Ft.Worth or Houston) for Block Dates/Times (ZULU) and information.

Radio Reference also has excellent Mil-Air Common along with NORAD /TACAMO Radio as well that you might load in too.

These are not always frequent use, so unless a Training Exercise in progress it could be hours/days at times before you catch any significant radio traffic.

Best of Luck

Bill

 

[Alliance01TX]

USAF Air Refueling Tracks - Updated

Please see my post in the Military Monitoring Forum and the USAF Air Refueling thread. Updated CONUS AR Tracks/Blocks from the December 2013 DoD Flip Chart. The PDF file is attached to that thread and you will note the AR map is dated 2010, yet was effective December 2013.

Note several NEW AR Tracks in Texas (Ex AR 197 H/L....) and Midwest as well...!

Enjoy - Check NOTAMS for date/times (ZULU)...for AR and Exercise Ops....

Bill

 

[sooner77]

Radio reference had 134.475 and 126.575 at Texarkana. Not true. 123.925 is there as well as associate UHF freq, but the other two higher frequencies are located, apparently, at
Cumby, TX. Anybody with a scanner around Cumby or Sulphur Springs confirm? 134.475/352.05 plus 126.575/317.75 would be there as the FAA gentleman told me at Texarkana. I am more interested in 134.475, which also might be present at Paris, TX. It is not at McAlester, OK as stated by Radio Reference. I wanted to put 134.475 on liveatc.com at it is very busy but I really cannot locate it. I have feeds at KFYV and KHRO and I would like to add 134.475 as a separate feed.

Many thanks for any info from scanner listeners.

 

[Michael-SATX]

148.8000 AM DarkStar - Over SATX - Who is this ?

Today at approx. 12PM noon I got a close call hit on 148.8000 AM
I checked the RRDB under both Randolph AFB and Lackland AFB - nothing.
I locked it and hit record to help me later try to identify this unid Military Air to Air traffic.
Note: below I typed just a few bits of much longer conversations and in different order, etc.
Traffic recorded: SA-2's are at San Saba Airfield, 9 line alpha, proper attack, plot on macro,
vehicle storage roll of HQ Bldg, how copy? ..proceed with a first run attack...2nd attack, etc.
Talk of Alt, WX conditions, later the instructor asked what did you learn on the flight today?
Talked about the Canyon Lake Dam, plot locations on maps. Contact San Antonio approach.
A funny park was when the instructor asked: Why would anybody want to fly an F-22 or F-35?
The student pilot named "Shorty" replied: oh I don't know because they are shinny

I kept hearing the call sign "DarkStar" which I remember a RRDB user SteveDouglass
and a YouTube video done a while back up at his house up in Amarillo, Texas in regards
to him hearing this same callsign. Hmm, his RR profile shows last active Christmas 12/25/2015.
The YouTube video titled: The SR-91 Aurora aircraft (posted on Nov 17,2016) link is below.
Steve recalls back on March 23,1992 he heard this radio traffic: "DarkStar sierra formation".
He went outside with his camera and captured the con-trails of a pulsed detonation type engine.
The rumors of the Lockheed Martin Skunk works Aurora project was hypersonic Mach 5~8 flight.

Skip ahead to 5:50 for the part about Steve Douglass https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9MaP-J5ps8

Did anyone else in the greater San Antonio, Texas area happen to monitor comms on 148.8000 AM ?

 

[mancow]

I hear the same training almost daily here near KC. Yesterday they were fighting off mock MIG-21s.

 

[n0xvz]

I kept hearing the call sign "DarkStar" which I remember a RRDB user SteveDouglass and a YouTube video done a while back up at his house up in Amarillo, Texas in regards to him hearing this same callsign. Hmm, his RR profile shows last active Christmas 12/25/2015. The YouTube video titled: The SR-91 Aurora aircraft (posted on Nov 17,2016) link is below. Steve recalls back on March 23,1992 he heard this radio traffic: "DarkStar sierra formation". He went outside with his camera and captured the con-trails of a pulsed detonation type engine. The rumors of the Lockheed Martin Skunk works Aurora project was hypersonic Mach 5~8 flight.

“Darkstar, Judy Judy, I'm going in for guns.”

Darkstar is a training callsign for AWACS.

 

[jbsarandolphmonitor]

I found that frequency last week looking for new frequencies. I haven't had time to listen to it.

Thanks
Don