[MilCom] Presidential Visit Set for Daytona Beach Saturday Oct 16, 2004 & John Edwards on Sunday.

[GeorgeF.]

Originally scheduled for Melbourne FL the White House has made a last 
minute change to the Presidents schedule that will bring Airforce One into 
Daytona Beach on 10/16/04.  Vice Presidential Candidate John Edwards will 
be in Daytona Beach sometime on Sunday (probably early in the day).

As with other Daytona Beach Presidential visits there will many radio 
communications worth monitoring.  For those interested in Secret Service 
frequencies you can get them here: 
http://www.milaircomms.com/secret_service.html  Most of what is on the 
Secret Service will be encrypted as in the past.   However from time to 
time "red" comms slip through (red comms refers to non encrypted comms, 
green comms refer to encrypted comms in the world of military and 
government communications).

However as in the past the Daytona Beach "Special Events" trunk system will 
be active.  Freqs can be found here: 
http://www.milaircomms.com/police_fl_volusia.html  You will want to program 
the system marked "Daytona Beach".  The only active talk group will be 
14-xxx.  This system only is \ used during special events.  In the past the 
Secret Service also made use of this system as  a way to communicate with 
Daytona Beach Police and Volusia Sheriff's during the motorcade and 
security details.  All comms on this system are non-encrypted.

At this time I do not yet know when Airforce One will arrive however the 
President will be speaking at 12:45PM.   You can check the NOTAMS (notices 
to airman) for a TFR (Temporary Flight Restriction) around the Daytona 
Beach area.  For a graphical map of all TFR's you can go here:
http://tfr.faa.gov/tfr/jsp/tfrmap.jsp  Once a "red" box appears in the 
Daytona Beach area simply click on it and you'll then see the detail 
description of the TFR which will give the effective times (all times will 
be in UTC).

The most common question I get is "what frequency can I hear Airforce One 
on?"  The answer is the standard approach and tower freqs, nothing special, 
Airforce One must use the same comms as any other plane in the system.  In 
fact Airforce One most likely will NOT use the UHF freqs but as in the past 
visits use the standard VHF freqs.  So program in the approach and tower 
(120.7 MHz) freqs in your scanner and you'll hear AF1.

In the event a CAP area is activated (Combat Air Patrol NOT Civil Air 
Patrol) the most common frequencies used during CAP missions are found 
here: http://www.milaircomms.com/uhf_cap.html.  99% of all comms during CAP 
missions are in the clear (265.400 MHz will probably be the active one).

If you want to see just how close you can get to AF1 and the motorcade 
here's some pictures of the Presidents visit in 2001: 
http://www.milaircomms.com/secret_service.html

Have fun & Happy Listening,
George  KI4FIA  Daytona Beach
http://www.MilAirComms.com