What frequencies?

[btlacer]

Hello everyone, hope everyone is ready for Thanksgiving and Christmas! Anyways I have received a ICOM R75 and was wanting to program frequencies into it and wanted everyones ideas of what to program. I like listening to mostly utility stations. So please let me know what you have programed in your radios.. Thanks alot everyone!

 

[brandon]

Where are you located?

 

[ridgescan]

Congratulations on getting a kicka** radio! Hope you love it as much as I do.

 

[btlacer]

I live in Henderson, Kentucky

 

[ridgescan]

Just to start you off here are a few
11175usb
8992usb
11190usb
15010usb
Then browse around the "Utilities" forum for discovered SSB frequencies from folks here and plug in a few.

 

[ka3jjz]

Welcome bt.

I would encourage you to learn a little bit about HF propagation. Signals on HF aren't like scanning - stay above 9 mhz or so during the day, below that at night. (It can and does vary depending on conditions from day to day, but this is a good general rule). You can start here (anything in blue is a link of one kind or another)...the site mentioned in the preamble is a good start, but make sure your Flash software is up to snuff...

HF Propagation - The RadioReference Wiki

As to programming frequencies - keep in mind that HF really defies 'scanning' as you might understand it. Keeping a few freqs in memory is a good practice - you can check something quickly this way - but don't think 'scanning' will work all that well. The problem is noise - the receiver can't easily tell the difference between a legitimate signal and a noise burst, so it's going to stop wherever the noise level exceeds a threshold.

Best Regards...Mike

 

[ka3jjz]

Our HF wiki has lots of links to some of the most active types of communications - just click on the link below and go to the Utilities section of the page. This is by no means comprehensive - joining Yahoo groups such as HF Monitors and particularly the UDXF (Utility DXers Forum) on Yahoo will make you realize this very quickly.

HF - The RadioReference Wiki

Best Regards...Mike

 

[btlacer]

Thanks for all the info guys, i guess i did not word my question right, but I am wanting to know what frequencies you like to listen to. Some of your favorite frequencies, just let me know what frequency and who uses it. Thanks

 

[Hooligan]

That's what this forum is all about -- read the threads & see the freqs for yourself.

 

[RadioDaze]

There's something very satisfying about slowly cruising the bands with a big tuning knob.

 

[Hooligan]

There's something very satisfying about slowly cruising the bands with a big tuning knob.

Yes, and that's the best way to do it -- do your own searching & research, instead of just asking people what their favorite freqs are.

P.S. My favorite is 27.025MHz, AM mode. I think the comms are coming from the deepest, darkest heart of Africa.

 

[brandon]

This should be a good start.

• HF Frequencies - Air Force
• HF Frequencies - Army
• HF Frequencies - CANFORCE
• HF Frequencies - FEMA/SHARES
• HF Frequencies - Hurricanes/Disasters
• HF Frequencies - MARS
• HF Frequencies - NASA
• HF Frequencies - Navy
• HF Frequencies - Time and WX Stations
• HF Frequencies - USCG and Maritime
• MWARA - HF Underground

 

[brandon]

And for a few off the top of my head that should bring activity on an hourly basis.

11175 - HF-GCS USAF Primary
13927 - MARS Phone Patches
5696 - US Coast Guard "5 megs"
8983 - US Coast Guard "8 megs"
5320 - US Coast Guard Atlantic Ops
8337.6 - US Coast Guard Caribbean Ops
11232 - Trenton Military (Canadian Forces)

Lots of US Coast Guard activity has shifted to COTHEN. It is an extremely busy network with lots of voice traffic, so I would definitely dial in those frequencies.

For airliners crossing the North Atlantic plug in: 5598, 5616, 5649, 6628, 8906, 8864, 8879 and 8891. In the Caribbean they often use 5520, 5550, 6577, 6586, 8825 and 11330. There are many more on this website.

 

[kb2vxa]

What did we do before internet publications? Try the old fashioned way, tune around and put interesting frequencies into memory. That's my suggestion since nobody but you can know specifically what you can hear let alone what your interests are.

Yeah, call me a crusty old fart, I AM. (;->)

 

[WisconsinRailfan]

Not sue if you know about this, but here is a link to a FREE application to program your R75 Radio I also use Ham Radio Deluxe, it has a built in Shortwave Broadcast Tuner (you have to import the schedule - if you decide to use it, I can send you the broadcast file listing) or you can use this program Shortwave Log: Shortwave Logging Software it also has a schedule built in.

 

[SCPD]

What did we do before internet publications? Try the old fashioned way, tune around and put interesting frequencies into memory. That's my suggestion since nobody but you can know specifically what you can hear let alone what your interests are.

Yeah, call me a crusty old fart, I AM. (;->)

Hehe Warren - yeah I started SWL'ing just before the internet became the internet and we had to <gulp> READ a book to get frequencies!

How so 20th century! :lol:

 

[btlacer]

Thanks to some of you guys for posting your favorites, not really sure why I am being told to study about shortwave? I know what it is and I know it's not like scanning. I was just wanting to know some of your favorite frequencies you like to monitor so I might try them out and see what I can hear. So, thanks to some of you guys, PLEASE keep them coming.....

 

[ka3jjz]

Perhaps a better question - precisely who is telling you to 'study about shortwave'? For what kind of application? best regards..Mike

 

[btlacer]

Anyone else have a frequency that they like to monitor or is one of their favorites to listen to?

 

[btlacer]

Anyone else found any frequencies that you like to monitor a lot?