[MilCom] New Thunderbird Frequency at Salinas Airshow

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Salinas Practice Day 9/26/2008

Salinas Airshow
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123.15    Discrete
134.70    Airboss / Heritage flight
135.75    Collaborators Air-to-Air
376.025    F-15 Strike Eagle Demo

Salinas Business Band Operations
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461.1375(100.0Hz) Simplex
454.2750(NT) Repeater
462.5750(D072) Sound setup
464.5000(114.8Hz) Contract security
459.1250(123.0Hz) Simplex / Ramp?
461.4375(100.0Hz) Simplex
466.2875(131.8Hz)
466.3625(100.0Hz) Ticket talk


Field / Approach
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118.40 Monterey Tower
119.40 KSNS CTAF
133.00 Approach
127.15 Approach

Thunderbirds
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139.225    Victor 1 / Diamond
235.350    ?? / Solos
216.725    Public Address
216.925 Public Address

No ground frequency monitored, since the Thunderbirds were not staging at the demonstration site.

The Thunderbirds were staging out of Monterey airport to perform at the Salinas show site.  I had been monitoring the public address frequencies, and heard the boss command that they switch over to victor 1.

After several scan cycles, where I could hear the boss over the PA frequency, but not over any previous frequency, I knew it was time to start searching.  Included in the 'previously known' were all the latest additions from Larry Van Horn's Blog:

http://mt-milcom.blogspot.com/2008/04/late-breaking-news-another-new-tbird.html

The scan while search mode on my BCD-396T was useful to let me search the 138-144MHz military airband while looking for a new frequency.  I finally got a confirmed hit that I could verify by the voice I had heard over the PA frequency and from my experience in knowing what the boss had sounded like.