[MilCom] Baseball Flyby- Long Island, NY Milcom Logs Monday April 5, 2010 (#1)
Steven William Hines
swhines2 at verizon.net
Mon Apr 5 22:38:46 EDT 2010
Monday April 5, 2010 12:30pm local (#1)
New York Met Home Opener at Citifield Queens, NY. The local news radio said
there would be a flyby of T-38C. I could copy four aircraft calling
Citifield on 273.8 (air to ground) (first time activity on that frequency
for me), which I have listed as 'Uniform Red', and to be honest I can not
recall where that designation came from. The callsign sounded something like
HANK or PRANK; I could not make it out. Cool to hear the setup of
equipment: like reverse GPS, the pilots had to input the time of arrival
(end of national anthem) and I guess their speed needed was calculated from
that, depending on how far away they were in the holding pattern over the
Long Island Sound. Unfortunately, the TV feed did not show the flyby.
Supposedly, the aircraft took off and landed from LaGuardia Airport. A
friend of mine eyeballed the formation over lower Manhattan.
Steve
Long Island, New York
VHF-UHF RADIOS: RS pro-60/pro-97/164.
VHF-UHF ANTENNAS: DPD Productions Scanner LP at 32 ft & MilTenna Omni
UHF/VHF at 36 ft.
HF RADIO: ICOM IC-R75.
HF ANTENNA: Alpha Delta DX Ultra 82 ft long dipole at 25 ft & 92 ft long
wire at 18 ft.
COAX: LMR-400 Ultra.
CONNECTORS: Pasternack clamps.
SOFTWARE: Win 97 (scanner programming), STSPLUS (sat. tracking) APT Decoder
(wx sat. decoder), Acarsd (VHF acars decoder) MMSSTV (ISS downlink SSTV),
Multipsk (everything else decoder), VoxToFile (recording).
Comments and corrections are welcome.
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