[MilCom] Chicago Lake front Air and Water Show Thursday Report

Ted tandkmoran at comcast.net
Thu Aug 17 20:03:52 EDT 2006


I was amazed to find the platform set up and staffed for a Thursday spotting 
run. Trouble was, there were no ATC people there and they never plugged in 
and performed the actual ATC function. Still, I caught a couple of key-ups 
on 348.000 (AM), and I suspect it is the UHF Platform frequency for the 
weekend. There is an evening show at Gary tonight, sounds like it's running 
right now. Hearing air to air traffic on 123.150 as I type this.

Staff has the usuual Moto Comm Direct UHF simplex rental radios. Staff was 
using only two channels today:

469.8625 (D244) Security
467.1125 (D606) Staff & Labor

139.8125 (000.0) (FM) Blue Angels Ground (analog)
284.2500 (AM) Blue Angels Delta
275.3500 (AM) Blue Angels Diamond
305.5000 (AM) Fat Albert & Ground Spotters
237.8000 (AM) Solos Comm 2
255.2000 (AM) Solos Comm 1

I also had some unaccounted for Scout hits on:
469.9125
469.9875
469.8875

Blue Angels were the only performers today. As others noted, Sean D. Tucker 
was doing some flight ops with one or two other unidentified aircraft, 
probably photo-ops stuff, south of the show site. Blue Angels coordinated 
the airspace with him on 123.475 (AM).

Caught a lot of park district and LPZ activity on 151.190 and 151.295, both 
114.8 Hz PL Tone in repeat mode.

Just caught DARK42 and DARK## coordinating operations on 398.950. One 
returning to O'Hare and the other en-route Gary. I'm assuming these are the 
B1's. Still looking for a "real" air to air for these big boys. Hearing a 
jet demo team (F-15's?) talking now on 376.025 (AM).

AM 1650 has the Lakeshore Traffic Advisory broadcast going.

Red Baron Stearman sitting parked on the tennis court north of the baseball 
diamond at the south end of Lincoln Park.

The Military Channel has a film crew at the show this year.

My thanks to all the CARMA members who came out for the mini-show today, it 
was great to see you all there, special thanks to Jeff.

Todays hit count:

126.800 (57) Lakeshore
123.100 (4) Airshows
123.475 (99) Sean Tucker
398.950 (2) Gary Radar?
256.700 (6) Gary Tower UHF
133.100 (18) Gary Radar
127.875 (99) Gary Radar
125.600 (99) Gary Tower VHF
123.650 (9) Gary FSS
123.150 (99) Gary Show Discrete?
123.175 (45) Lima Lima
122.725 (90) Unknown
122.750 (99) Air to Air
122.775 (23) Red Baron?
237.800 (99) Angels
255.200 (99) Angels
275.350 (99) Angels
284.250 (99) Angels
305.500 (24) Angels
346.525 (3) PHOENIX
388.000 (12) Midway Radar
136.575 (7) Unknown

Happy Scanning! - Ted 



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