[Scan-DC] Re:Blimp frequencies

Wed, 18 Sep 2002 00:45:44 -0400

On Wed, 18 Sep 2002 00:09:06 EDT [email protected] writes:
> I've been maintaining the BLIMP FILE for a number of years. 
....
> The Fuji Film Blimp ... ground crew vehicles have both CB and 
> Aircraft 
> antennas. 

 **That** could get interesting.

> As for the 250.800- this is still a puzzlement. I regularly heard 
> communications turning up on that frequency while sitting on the 
> beach in 
> Pompano Beach Florida. I have been told by someone who was on that 
> GY Blimp- 
> in the cockpit- that there is NO UHF radio on the ship. So what the 
> heck was 
> I receiving? 

Is Radio/TV Marti broadcast via an aerostat? Are there communications
sent to it via any frequencies? I know it's not manned (PC version:
crewed).

> I hope that this is of interest. I am always looking for new 
> information and 
> corrections to the data that we have. Please feel free to write to 
> me. As 
> soon as the file is updated I will advise the group if anyone if 
> interested.
> 
> Rickey Stein      [email protected]
> x-RCMA International Editor

What do you have for the airships out in Tillamook OR? They operate from
a marvelous spruce hangar. Great naval aviation museum there too, not to
be missed.