[Scan-DC] BWI

Gary Chatters [email protected]
Thu, 12 Dec 2002 21:19:38 -0500 (EST)


On Thu, 12 Dec 2002, fourwd1 wrote:

> Working BWI adjacent, I've noticed that the BWI Maintenance vehicles have 2
> VHF high band 1/4 wave antennas on the roof.  The length of one looks to be
> in the 150 MHz range (compared to a 2m 1/4 wave), while the other looks to
> be maybe 4" longer, which would put them in the Air band area. Would maint.
> vehicles be equipped with Air band radios too ?  Kinda make sense.
>

Any vehicles crossing or traversing runways would need to be able talk to
ground control for permission.

gc