[MilCom] Sentry Exercises at Volk Field Wisconsin

[Ted and Kim Moran]

We have our annual major exercises going up at the Volk Field CRTC, should
be "Sentry" something or other. Many players. We are due for a Jointstars
visitor today. Def scheduled for today and two days (unkn) next week,
possibly going through the rest of this week, too. Many players and new
(temporary?) freqs. Preset comm plan involves color coded Yellow, Green, Red
and Blue, one-through-twelve, some of which are represented below. All
airspaces, restricted areas (R6901-R6904), routes, 640A/B and Minnow MOA's,
etc are involved. We had B52's from Barksdale and AWACS from Tinker
yesterday. Amazing listening:

Volk Field / CRTC:
127.500    236.600    Tower (Old UHF)
127.500    239.250    Tower (New UHF)
121.900    275.800    Ground
135.250    290.800    Arv/Dep via Volk RAPCON Primary ("White-3")
133.300    380.350    Arv/Dep via Chicago ARTCC Lone Rock ­ Low Altitude
121.375    263.000    Arv/Dep via Chicago ARTCC Oshkosh ­ High Altitude
125.050    269.650    South & East MOA¹s Arv/Dep via Chicago ARTCC
124.400    317.700    West & Falls MOA R6904 Arv/Dep via Minneapolis ARTCC
125.100    323.100    R6903 & Sheboyagn Range Arv/Dep via Chicago ARTCC
128.600    363.000    R6901A/B Fort McCoy Arv/Dep via Chicago ARTCC
135.150    307.100    Volk & Camp Douglas Arv/Dep

    373.100    Command Post
    372.200    Pilot Dispatch
    344.600    Meteorology
    395.100    Aircraft Maintenance Net
    143.550    Aircraft Operations Net
    34.20      Hardwood Range FM
    132.025    Hardwood Range VHF
    297.100    Hardwood Range UHF Secondary
    358.200    Hardwood Range UHF Primary
    247.400    McCoy Range Control UHF
    241.100    McCoy Airfield Spare UHF
    123.450    McCoy Range VHF
    124.600    McCoy Range VHF F3
    41.90      McCoy Range FM F2
    46.80      McCoy Range FM F1
    38.50      McCoy Tower FM
    41.70      McCoy Tower FM
    229.400    McCoy Tower UHF
    241.000    McCoy Tower UHF
    40.55      McCoy Helo Ops
    242.400    McCoy Helo Ops
    260.400    Sheboygan Range

Volk GCA Radar:    
123.850  138.100  138.500  372.900  379.400  389.900  392.000

134.950    Minnow MOA Arv/Dep via Chicago ARTCC w/287.900 UHF
138.050    Indiana ANG Air Tac
138.200    ACMI AWACS
138.350    Wisconsin ANG Air Tac
139.700    Minneapolis ANG Air Tac
139.800    Indiana ANG Air Tac
141.575    Illinois ANG Air Tac
252.975    Brochure (Old UHF)
261.200    AR640/Minnow AWACS Ops
269.000    Minneapolis ARTCC
276.950    ACMI
276.975    ACMI
283.775    Brochure Secondary
287.900    Minnow MOA Arv/Dep via Chicago ARTCC w/134.950 VHF
291.900    AR640B Refuel Secondary
298.775    Brochure Primary
299.175    ACMI
303.000    Minnow MOA Tac
305.500    AR640A Refuel Primary
319.025    ACMI
319.850    ACMI Wautoma ­ Phantom East
320.900    AR640 Secondary
322.450    ACMI Wautoma ­ Phrost East
327.050    ACMI Wautoma
335.550    ACMI Wautoma ­ Phrost Secondary
343.700    Chicago ARTCC
343.750    ACMI Bldg 511
346.250    ACMI Milston ­ Phoenix Primary / R6904
346.525    ACMI
348.650    ACMI Milston ­ Phantom West
353.950    Chicago ARTCC
360.600    Chicago ARTCC Milwaukee
364.200    USAF AICC primary / AWACS
364.250    ACMI Phoenix
364.525    ACMI
370.950    ACMI Milston ­ Phrost West
371.100    ACMI AWACS
377.000    AWACS
377.050    ACMI Milston ­ Phantom Secondary
392.200    Wisconsin ANG Command Post Madison
396.200    AR640 Air Tac
396.900    AR640 Air Tac
398.800    AR640 Air Tac

All Minneapolis and Chicago Center UHF freqs also worth a listen, many
active.

Not everything above was logged yesterday, but a lot of it was. A few of the
players from yesterday:

Upset 71 - WI ANG Tanker - Milwaukee
Skull 11 & 12 - B52's - Barksdale
Chisel ## - Unknown
Snakes - IL ANG F-16's - Springfield
Racers - IN ANG F-16's - Ft Wayne or Terre Haute
Nodak ## - ND ANG F-16's
Panther ## - Downed aircrews
Happy ## - IL ANG KC-135's - Scott AFB
Badger ## - WI ANG F-16's - Madison
Phantom - Radar Controller
Brochure - Radar Controller
Phoenix - Radar Controller
Goliath Alpha - Tinker AWACS
Northern Lights- Tinker AWACS
Viking Ops - AWACS working this on 377.000
Blue Ash - NORAD Callsign
Jolly ## - Rescue Helos

No NATO players yet - but we usually get some. Callsign ASCOT was heard
working area ATC centers earlier in the month and were found to be RAF
Tornados, so they might show up.

JTIDS/JTADS terminals in heavy use. Some of the preset channels may refer to
these comms as opposed to UHF/VHF freqs. HF is also in use, but have yet to
confirm any freqs - help requested. 52's were doing some selective jamming
yesterday as part of the exercise.