[MilCom] Civil Air Patrol Annual Report & Communications Upgrade Status

[Ken]

Civil Air Patrol's Annual Report to Congress CY 2006 was recently posted to 
the their website:
http://www.cap.gov/documents/2006_CAP_Annual_Report_To_Congress_lorespdf.pdf

There's lots of summary information in this report (48 pages) and a 
"careful" reading of the report will provide some "surprises" into the aero 
operational mission aspects of CAP.

Presently CAP continues to operate on the following freqs until 9/30/07:
148.125 Repeater & simplex
148.15 Repeater & simplex
148.1375 Simplex  (ground teams)
149.5375 Simplex  (air to ground)
Common CTCSS 100.0 on all simplex freqs, with different CTCSS's for repeater 
sites.

Additionally CAP continues to be one of the largest users of the Intersquad 
low power UHF radios (396-400 mhz)

Remember that CAP is transitioning to nine new VHF frequencies (2 new 
repeater outputs, 1 repeater input, 6 simplex frequencies).  Sources 
indicate that at least two of CAP previously authorized new frequencies will 
be changed due to Mexico border coordination issues.

"Monitoring Times" magazine March 2007 edition list all of the old & new CAP 
frequencies.  Also as a courtesy to the monitoring hobby they recently 
posted the information to support the monitoring hobby.  See: 
http://www.monitoringtimes.com/mtairshow07.pdf

CAP starts to distribute the new repeaters & other radio equipment in April 
2007, so new frequency usage testing is possible.

Should prove an interesting challenge to identify all new frequencies in use 
in various geographic areas, as well as the designations assigned to those 
specific frequencies (frequency output repeater/simplex), ctccs/dcs, & mode 
(NFM or Digital)!!!

Ken