[MilCom] US Coast Guard

[Larry Van Horn]

Greg wrote:

> Well all, I was on that same cutter this morning & my eyes were right 
> 267.9, although it might be a typo.  If you look at the news tonight you 
> might see which cutter it was.  Dept. of Homeland Security Secretary & I 
> think every flag officer in the Coast Guard was there.  Saw lots of suits 
> there talking into there coat sleeves, but I had no radios with me.  Also 
> Allan Stern tells me 12xxx should be 12290 Khz (thanks Allan).
> Greg (SF Bay Area)

I tried to mail this 3 days ago but it never made the list or to Greg I 
guess.

The frequency is actually 237.9 which is the new USCG Air Secondary. I 
originally published this one and the complete new set of UHF CG air freqs 
in my MT Milcom column several years ago. It was one of the first signs we 
had that DoD was shaking up the 225-400 MHz spectrum. I am sure that 
complete set is posted on the Milcom Monitoring Post blog page for those 
that need them. You can do a search using the template in the upper left 
hand corner and the address is below.

The list on the cutter is definitely in error. Those CG personnel are going 
to have fun talking on a nationwide ATC allocation (267.9)

On a side note, my old good friend Gene Hughes-Costin passed away last 
weekend. Most of the old timers will remember that Gene was the creator and 
publisher of Police Call. I have the obit on my personal blog (address 
below) for those that are interested.

73 de Chief

Larry Van Horn, N5FPW
President, Teak Publishing, Brasstown NC
Monitoring Times Assistant/Technical Editor
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