[MilCom] Milair Callsign

[Duane Mantick]

Hmmmmm....odd I've never picked that one up before.  Thanks for the heads up! If you have a home page for them, pass it along.........

Duane



--- On Fri, 2/13/09, mdmonitor1 at verizon.net <mdmonitor1 at verizon.net> wrote:

> From: mdmonitor1 at verizon.net <mdmonitor1 at verizon.net>
> Subject: Re: [MilCom] Milair Callsign
> To: wb9omc at yahoo.com
> Cc: "Milcom (e)" <milcom at mailman.qth.net>
> Date: Friday, February 13, 2009, 6:48 PM
> Guys,
> 
> Brickyard #### is a civilian airline based in
> Indiana---hence the ref to the Indianapolis Raceway "
> Brickyard"
> 
> Ron
> Baltimore MD
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at  6:35 PM, Duane Mantick wrote:
> 
> > 
> BRICKYARD is the CP for the 434th ARW at Grissom ARB. 
> HOWEVER; the
> tankers KC135R models out of there use either MASHxx or
> INDYxx in most
> cases.  I don't know of an *aircraft* that uses
> BRICKYARD as a callsign
> but that doesn't mean there isn't one.  (I can
> hear a 344.6 metro call, it
> would be just like out of the movie "Airplane" or
> whatever the satire one
> was.....  "BRICKYARD, this is BRICKYARD....." 
> "Huh?"  :-)  :-)  )
> 
> I posted hearing some stuff on frequencies that have been
> (from my listening anyway) dormant that was related to
> chicago center civilian
> traffic on a normally military UHF channel.  That was
> 351.95.  Also had some traffic on 118.4, and 255.4 which I
> showed as National Guard ch 12 from an old reference -
> neither one of which I was able to make out due to weak
> signals and temporary antenna at my QTH.  The latter might
> have been
> F16s out of Fort Wayne ANG base, 122nd FW although I
> don't recall hearing
> them on this freq in the past.....
> 
> Duane
> WB9OMC
> west central Indiana
> 
> 
> --- On Fri, 2/13/09, mws72 at qconline.com
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> > Subject: [MilCom] Milair Callsign
> > To: "Milcom (e)" <milcom at mailman.qth.net
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> > Date: Friday, February 13, 2009, 6:09 PM
> > I am a bit confused by something and I know it has a
> simple
> > answer. Now and last night I have been hearing
> Brickyard
> > XXXX on Chicago Center sectors (mainly Dubuque High).
> Sounds
> > like it is orbiting in that area. I can guess it is a
> tanker
> > from Grissom? and is a asset for POTUS top cover
> right?
> > Right.  Anyway I had never heard one with a four
> digit
> > mission number so I guess that is what is throwing me.
> > In case anyone here has never heard Chicago Center
> sectors
> > on friday night. They are wall to wall flights and
> tonight
> > they are stacked up while POTUS flys in to ORD.
> > 
> > Michael W. Scheel N0NGL Davenport, Iowa
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> >
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