[MilCom] 2005 Canadian Forces CF-18 Demo Team AND new BA Grnd Freqs

[Larry Van Horn]

Master Dan wrote:
> > The Canadian Forces have announced their CF-18 Demo team, including a
> > picture of the aircraft and a tour schedule. The press release is
located at:
> Any a/a freqs. on these guys?

If they were just announcing the formation of the group and no one has
caught them in performance yet, no one will have any freqs. I am sure though
has hardy as the Milcom newsgroup family is, we won't go long without
someone here finding their freqs. As soon as we get any info, I will pass it
along here on the newsgroup.

And as an updater, those of you who will be attending any Blue Angel airshow
this year keep in mind that they ARE using a new ground cart/crew radio
installation.  They have obviously switched over to new narrowband
technology and instead of high band activity (162-174), we now find them
exclusively in the 138-144 MHz mil LMR band this season (no high band
reports so far this year). Those of you going to airshows without Close Call
or Signal Stalker capability should search 138-144 MHz using a 12.5 kHz step
looking for BA ground crew freqs.

The two that have been discovered so far:

139.8125 MHz (NBFM)
142.6125 MHz (NBFM)

I guarantee you there are more to be discovered.

And from my old friend Mike Riffle and a couple of others, based on over two
years of constant monitoring we now believe that 289.800 is probably a USN
Blue Angel refueling discrete frequency. Would appreciate others plugging
this one into your airshow discrete bank and reporting any activity you may
hear on it from the BA team.

Will be updating the website with all this soon (and hopefully a couple of
more. ;-)

Please keep those airshow reports coming. Still haven't seen anything from
any of the DC gang on the weekend bigone at Andy. Also looking for any
reports from anyone in the Prince George's area on any new 380-390 MHz trunk
control channels that might have popped up recently. Guys your getting a new
system up there and need to be on the watch for any and all 380-390 MHz
control channels that come on the air.. Ditto that for anyone in and around
Eglin AFB who has one of these trunk systems now operational down there.
Still looking for reports on that new 380-390 MHz system.

73 all de Chief

Larry Van Horn, N5FPW
Milcom Founding Father
Assistant Editor/Milcom Columnist
Monitoring Times Magazine