[MilCom] Milair Callsign

[Bengalsfan]

I hear Indy center referring to Brickyard quite a bit with civilian planes, maybe it's also a waypoint, I don't hear the Grissom folks use it exclusively though, they use Grissom more often than not.


--- On Fri, 2/13/09, Duane Mantick <wb9omc at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: Duane Mantick <wb9omc at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [MilCom] Milair Callsign
> To: mdmonitor1 at verizon.net
> Cc: "Milcom (e)" <milcom at mailman.qth.net>
> Date: Friday, February 13, 2009, 7:07 PM
> 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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> > <mailto:mws72 at qconline.com> > wrote:
> > 
> > > From: mws72 at qconline.com
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> > <mailto:mws72 at qconline.com>
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> > > Subject: [MilCom] Milair Callsign
> > > To: "Milcom (e)"
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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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