[MilCom] ARNG Helicopter Training October Mountain Lee MA?

[Ken]

For those of you in the Lee, Massachusetts area,  the Army National Guard,
both CT & MA units still have a low altitude landing/takeoff, load lifting
helicopter training area on October Mountain in Lee MA

See:  http://www.mass.gov/dcr/parks/western/octm.htm

The state park is located at 256 Woodland Rd, Lee MA

Frequencies that probably will be active
41.90 NFM, air/air, air ground tactical UH60's & CH 47's from CT (used
primarily)
46.75 NFM air/air, air/ground tactical UH60's from MA
123.05 AM air/air, air/ground UH60's from MA
242.4 AM air/air, air/ground Common frequency that might be used by either
356.3  AM air/air, air/ground tactical UH60's from MA (used primarily

AM Mode
122.7 Pittsfield Municipal UNICOM
122.8 Great Barrington Airport UNICOM
125.0  Albany Approach/Depature Control

Callsigns typically used:

FURY XX (2 digits)  UH 60's CT
NOMAD XX (2 digits) CH 47's CT
GUARD COPTER (XXXXX or XXX), MA (UH60's) but sometimes CT  Usually they will
will ID with full callsign e.g. GUARD COPTER 23508 and than abbreviate to
GUARD 508, etc.

Information on what the helicopters look like, etc. can be found at the
following sites:

UH 60:   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UH-60_Black_Hawk

CH 47:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CH-47_Chinook

Training can be held mornings, afternoons, and early evenings.

Please posting your monitoring findings to the list

Ken