[MilCom] Boston Area (only) ?

[Damon Cassell]

Also, don't overlook HF. I'm also in the Boston area, and it is very
easy to catch lots of milcom traffic below 30 MHz. Coast Guard SAR
activity all up and down the eastern seaboard is easily heard, and
lots of mil activity on hot spot frequencies like 11175. Many of these
signals are very strong and don't take a very elaborate setup to pull
in. A general coverage receiver with SSB and a simple antenna
(preferably outdoors) will get you started.

Damon
Salem, Mass


On 11/29/06, Ken <rfinder1 at verizon.net> wrote:
> 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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