[MilCom] CVW-2 at Fallon Nevada

[Paul Raguse]

I rented a 4WD (I had to walk up there on my other trips) and spent Thursday night and friday up near Fairview 
Peak overlooking Bravo-17. Joker, Falcon, Switch, Bullet, King, Saber Hawk and Hunter flights from CVW-2 were heard on Fallon Clearance Delivery, Ground, Tower, Approach, and Desert control. It's line of sight to Fallon NAS up there. Most callsigns changed when they went to the working freqs as usual for the navy. Thrusday night flights were droping LGTRs on Bravo 17 making the quick flash visible when the spotting charge goes off. 
I took no video as i was still driving around up there. On Friday there was no activity at Bravo 17 that i saw and i spent most of the time with the scanner searching. The airwing flights ended around noon and the Top Gun type flights went to around 4pm. The freqs for the Top Gun flights were the same as already posted so i will leave them out except for a few. 
255.3 Bogey F-5 AA (VFC-13)
264.5 Strike Base (NSAWC Base?)
323.8 Bravo-19 Range. Switch Flight doing scored low level attacks with MK-76s.
323.8 Bravo-19 Range. Strikestar (JSTARS?) working with Lion 31 and Lion 32. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJE8CzDWcW8
268.85 Strikestar (JSTARS?) giving flights tasking.
365.9 Strikestar (JSTARS?) giving flights tasking.
142.9125 FM. Blue Forces ground training somewhere, clearing IEDs and being attacked by terrorists.
139.2 FM. Range Maintenance and the ground opposing force team fighting the guys on 142.9125.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDEVmvqBvFA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Am2Xhah-yqQ
340.3 Black Jack. Most comms secure
284.9 Kmart and Bankroll 10 coordinating tasking. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BQR1Z3is00
306.15 Skier? working flights
367.3 RTO working flights. Sound like mainly safety of flight related coms.
279.7 Bogey F-5 AA (VFC-13)
273.25 Helo base (the Hunters or Saber Hawks or both, didn't write that down.)
290.7 Bogey F-5 Base (VFC-13)
325.1 Helo AA (the Hunters or Saber Hawks, didn't write that down.)
259.2 Bravo-20 range. Most comms secure.
274.05, 318.95 Unknown flight AA
With the antenna at 8000 feet i heard some distant activity too.
375.8 Saber flight in Nellis Range
322.3 Unknown flight in the Owens MOA (R-2508 edwards afb complex)
256.25 and 240.175 AWACS working flights in R-2508. 
124.75 JANET flights on Silverbow Tower (Tonopah Test).
119.35 JANET flights to/from Tonopah Test on Nellis control.
349.7 Flights refueling in the Nellis range
126.6 Saber flight AA. Same flight as on 375.8 Ah, er, hmm... 126.6 WAS the groom lake tower freq 
durring my October 09 visit to the Nellis range. I can look forward to meeting the MIB now.