[MilCom] Active Army/Army Reserve/Army National Guard Aero Low Band?

Ken rfinder1 at verizon.net
Mon Apr 18 18:01:14 EDT 2005


Wondering if anyone is monitoring activity on low band VHF, NFM -- you don't 
need any special milcom receiver to monitor this activity.  Transmission 
could be formal or informal (brief to long winded) and the entire callsign 
might not be used.    I think that the various Ops Section have to maintain 
a radio watch while the helos are flying so most of the time there will be 
arrival, 1/2 hour incremental, & departure from training area radio 
transmission/reports back to the radio watch base station.

In monitoring area (Springfield MA area) I've had the following active in 
the past air/air & "Operations" (base):
41.90  CT ARNG  KBDL
46.75 MA ARNG  KBAF
My monitoring buddy in the Rutland VT area (Jim L) also recently copied 
activity on 41.2 in VT.
So we do know that the VHF-NFM low band is active in the New England Area
A review the following is potential NFM low band VHF operation:
AL:  38.2, 38.7, 41.05
CA:  40.9, 49.0

CT:  41.9

DE:  46.9

FL:  40.9,

GA:  47.0

IA:  36.1, 36.7

ID:  41.5

IL:  32.3

IN:  41.5

KS:  41.7, 49.95

KY:  41.15

LA:  40.9

MA:  46.75

MD:?

ME:  41.2

MI:  41.85

MN:  41.4

MO:  41.65

MS:  33.5

MT:  40.65

NC:  42.0, 49.15

NE:  38.8

ND:  49.8

NH:  32.1

NJ:  40.1

NM:  34.9

NY:  41.0

NV:  32.35

OH:  36.7, 41.1

OK:  46.9

OR:  40.9

PA:  49.95

RI:  38.95

SC:  41.3

SD:  41.5

TN:  41.5

TX:  36.8, 41.0

UT: 49.65

VA:  40.2, 52.75

VT:  41.2

WA:  36.55

WI:  40.8, 40.9, 46.7



So if you have the time (and most of you probably don't) put your respective 
state ( and/or  nearby states e.g. CT ARNG always does some training at KCEF 
so I monitor them very easily).. Additionally, perhaps with solar 
conditions, there might be some skip this summer..



BTW If you have any other verfied low band frequencies in use, please post 
them...



Ken




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