[MilCom] Boston Area (only) ?

[Ken]

Bob there's posting right here in the milcom list archives (www.qth.net 
milcom)  (Look  for Bill Jasset's postings for military air (e.g. 11/10/06, 
1025/06, 10/12/06, 9/23/06, as well as Aug, Jul, Jun, May, Apr, Mar, Feb 
2006) the entire New England area including Boston.    Frankly Boston itself 
doesn't really have much going on milcom air wise.  You do have Hanscom AFB 
in Beford MA which would have some typical base LMR support nets.  USCG 
Boston area would also have some activity on LANT VHF highbane freqs as well 
as VHF marine.  Generally if you tried monitoring with only one scanner, 
milcom as well as general scannerland traffic in the Boston area 
concurrently you most likely would miss all of the milcom activity.

I'd also suggest you look at:

http://www.scancapecod.us/wiki/index.php/Scan_Cape_Cod_Military_Page  lots 
of military air freqs

http://www.scancapecod.us/wiki/index.php/APCO-25_Stations_In_Our_Listening_Area 
Hanscom AFB LMR nets can be found here, most are now APco-25 digital

http://164.214.2.62/products/usfif/enroute.cfm  USIFR Supplement especially 
and focus in on all the milair command post/operations freqs that are listed 
for all the bases within 200 miles of your location.

Scan-Mass-East  on yahoo.groups also may have some limited military 
frequency information.

Scanner Master Corp "Southern New England Communications Guide", 10th 
edition (for the active MA Army National Guard radio nets, including VHF 
highband/crossband repeaters, VHF low band repeaters.

Grove's "Frequency Master File" cdrom 
http://www.grove-ent.com/FREQMASFILE.html

Don't know what type of equipment you have as far as scanners & antennas, so 
this may be a limiting factor right from the start (e.g. no military air UHF 
or P25 capability).

Generally, USCG would be the most active, followed by Air Force aero/Hanscom 
LMR, & than MA Army National Guard ops.   USN occassionally, if ships are in 
port.  US Army/US Marine Corps, doubtful unless some sort of exercise held 
in area.

Should take you a maximum of 1 hours worth of effort to get all the 
frequencies you need for the Boston area.

Once again I'd like to emphasize that in the immediate Boston area, don't 
expect to monitor much military type activity pertaining to the Boston area.

Good luck

Ken



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bob" <rgsrose at comcast.net>
To: <milcom at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2006 7:38 PM
Subject: [MilCom] Boston Area (only) ?


> Hello,
>
> New at all of this, so please bear with me.
>
> I've dug out a lot of freq's from the variousa web sources, and the msg's
> posted here.
>
> But was wondering if there is any list, or way of filtering or generating
> one, of what the folks here have picked up specifically in and around the 
> Boston area ?
>
> The messages posted are, or course, from all over the country, and those
> from not around Boston are not of too much interest to me.
>
> Regards,
> Bob
>
>
>
>
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