[MilCom] best freqs

[Duane Mantick]

Well, these are good lists with a couple caveats:

1) they both need a warning telling you to print them
in LANDSCAPE mode or material gets truncated on the
right margin.

2) is there a version of that actual frequency list that
puts them in order (relatively speaking) of "the most commonly
used" or "the most popular and/or easy to monitor"???

None of my HF gear even HAS 1000 memories  :-)  let alone not
already dedicated to some other "stuff".  Using reported
traffic such as we see here in Milcom, it seems like there
ought to be a way to quantify this and list them out in some
other order(s) for the benefit of people wanting to know where
to look.....that, along with Pop Comm and MT ought to have
enough information to work from.

Duane
WB9OMC


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ken [mailto:rfinder1 at verizon.net]
> Sent: Saturday, September 25, 2004 6:22 PM
> To: Duane Mantick; milcom at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: Re: [MilCom] best freqs
>
>
> Hello Duane & the group:
>
> Well "Monitoring Times" has the top 1000 HF utility freqs see
> http://www.monitoringtimes.com/html/mttopHF.html
> which includes military allocations.. Typical would be the GHFS freqs,
> etc...  see  http://www.monitoringtimes.com/html/mtghfs.html
> Most of the
> freqs could probably be monitored worldwide.
>
> As far as VHF/UHF freqs are concerned, I would think that this would be
> rather regionalized to your normal monitoring area.  Many of the
> so called
> national freqs e.g. METRO/WX 342.5 are being replaced with a
> specific base
> metro freqs that varies by base.. However, there are still some
> nationwide
> and/or major command wide frequencies, e.g. 252.1, 303.0, 364.2, 372.2,
> etc....
>
> >From a regional standpoint it would be air to ground freqs for Base
> Operations, Command Posts, Metro Wx, perhaps some units air/air tactial,
> SOF, etc.
>
> If folks check the archives (August 2004) here they will find that I've
> extracted from the DOD IFR Supplement and formatted in a by state
> sort the
> Metro/Wx, Command Post, Base Operations (Pilot to Dispatch), ANG Ops, &
> Range Frequencies... This would be a great starting point.
>
> I might also add that 'Grove's Military Frequency Directory' (2nd
> Edition,
> Copyright 2004) has got many air/air tactical freqs by base/unit
> listed --
> many, many!!!
>
> Finally for those folks that are close enough to bases to monitor
> the land
> mobile radio support nets (e.g. security/law enforcement,
> fire/crash, base
> operations, aircraft maintenance, etc,) this definitely enhances the aero
> monitoring aspect.  Again Grove's Military Frequency Directory
> (2nd edition)
> has a very large number of bases listed.
>
> See my initial review of this publication in the May 2004 posting
> archieves.
>
> BTW no frequency directory is perfect, but it sure can save one a lot of
> time trying to search for all the active frequencies in your
> local area....
>
> Ken
> Springfield MA Monitoring Area
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Duane Mantick" <wb9omc at nlci.com>
> To: <milcom at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Saturday, September 25, 2004 2:43 AM
> Subject: RE: [MilCom] best freqs
>
>
> >
> > I was wondering, has anyone been keeping tabs
> > on THE most popular HF and VHF/UHF frequencies?
> snip..snip...
>
>