[MilCom] ***New Thunderbird Freq @ Salinas

BATopolski RadioFreqs at comcast.net
Sat Sep 27 21:15:11 EDT 2008


Nice catch!

Check Six...Good Hunting!
Brian...aka "Wagon Guy(s)"...CT

> Thunderbirds
> ============
> 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.



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