[MilCom] Blue Freqs

[Larry Van Horn, N5FPW]

My goodness Dennis, uh, YoCuz. That was quite a cross post (three groups).

I can tell its is that time of years again. This has happened every year 
since I founded this list. Death, taxes, airshow, hurricane and major 
incident freq request. Well for what I know will be many many times this 
airshow season, here weeeeeee gooooooo -- a little more pull!!!

> Anyone know of a complete list of Blue freqs?

A complete list, yes the Blues have that. And if you like I can point you to 
a doxen websites on the internet that have dozens of freqs that will make 
your fingers tired punching them into your scanner. But you won't hear most 
of them, unfortunately.

We here at Monitoring Times publish an annual airshow issue (Ken Wyndka 
referred to it in his post in our March issue). You can still purchase a 
single copy on the newstand or by calling the MT office (see website). You 
can also get an electronic copy from the office.  If you want to wait we 
will be putting the complete article on our website 
(www.monitoringtimes.com), but we do that after the month it was published 
as a courtesy to subscribers and those that purchase their copies that keep 
us folks employed. We have last year's article on the website right now that 
has most of the Blues and others airshow freqs (yes there was changes this 
year). And yes, we do not charge for access to our Monitor Reference 
Library. It is free!!!

Unlike 95% of the list on the internet or passed around these newsgroups I 
don't have list as big as a book with old junk that was never valid to begin 
with or has been changed. The major disappointment I have with some of the 
folks in this hobby who rush to post such list (and yes I understand some 
wanting to be helpful), is they have never monitored what they are posting 
(they just collect freqs) and they don't know when to throw away a frequency 
or callsign.

Several years ago I had one individual who posted to this group a list of 
old HF freqs for the hurricane hunters. When I pointed this out to him that 
no one would hear anything on some of the freqs on the list he responded by 
saying, "well maybe that will encourage others to monitor." Sorry I don't 
see how posting old freq you won't hear anything on except background static 
is going to make you want to monitor more. Duh!

So just for you Dennis here is a list of active Blue Angel freqs that have 
been reported or we have monitored in the last two years ONLY! My only 
request is that you get back with us on this list and let everyone know what 
you heard even if it is on our airshow list. We are working on seeing what 
sort of pattern the teams have in freq usage at various show across the 
country as we do track usage at individual shows. And I ask anyone attending 
any airshow this year report to this list what you heard during the show 
(thanks Bill T and Mike C for getting things started this year).

And the Blues UHF freqs --  237.800  251.600  255.200  264.550  265.000 
275.350  284.250  289.800 (Aerial Refueling)  299.650  302.100 <Fat Albert 
Secondary>  305.500 <Fat Albert Primary> 346.500 (Maintenance) MHz.

Bill Truscott listed the following active at the Mather gathering: 163.0 
237.8  255.2  275.35  284.25  305.5  364.5.  Hey Bill I bet that 364.500 
freq you listed should have been 346.5, right? 364.5 is a US Army discrete 
and shouldn't have BA activity on it, so please Bill let us know for sure 
before it ends up on a bunch of internet website list. It has already been 
passed on three or four newsgroups ;-)))

So as always we appreciate all who post here. There are a lot of other 
regional and local list on Yahoo that wish they could be as good as this 
list, but there is only one that tops them all -- Milcom.

73 all and good hunting de Chief.

Larry Van Horn, N5FPW
ATC (AW)         USN (Ret)
Milcom/Fedcom Founding Father
MT Milcom/Help Desk Columnist