[Scan-DC] 1st Flight Centennial

[RICHARD ROWLAND]

Kill Devil Hills North Carolina December 12-17

During the 1st Flight Centennial I found 5 days of very active radio =
use. Most channels carried a multiple type of communications making it =
difficult to put any definite names to the channels.

Listed are General Operations with various government and military =
agencies as best as I can describe.
The digital comms were monitored on the Uniden 250D and 785D Scanners

Frequency  PL/CTCSS                      Comments
163.0750        103.5        NPS North Ops repeater and Simplex
164.1375          67.0        Army National Guard Security
165.2875         -------        ATF, comms were totally digital=20
165.3750        103.5        U.S. Secret Service, mostlt DVP but some =
clear comms
166.5125        131.8        not identified
166.8500        127.3        probably a NPS radio
168.0500          69.4        believed to be Marines doing security
168.1000         csq          Command Repeater with 170.450 input 110.9 =
ctcss
168.3000       141.3        believed to be Army National Guard providing =
security
168.3500       100.0        not identified
168.7000        csq            Command repeater with 170.975 input 110.9 =
ctcss
169.2500       ------           Voice scrambling / speech inversion
169.5375      131.8        not identified
170.0125       ----            EMS net
170.8000      -----            Totally Digital comms believed to be FAA

Radio support for the event was provided by the NIRSC (National Incident =
Radio Support Catche).=20
This is a Federal Agency made up in Boise Idaho at the National =
Interagency Fire Center. The NIRSC provided the radios, portable =
repeaters and support staff with radio techs to keep the radios working. =


The FAA had a temporary control tower located about mid length of the =
1st Flight runway. I suspect a portable radar was in use since aircraft =
was being assigned "squawk" numbers.=20

118.075    1st Flight AWOS (weather)
119.975    1st Flight tower (temporary)
121.750    Wright Brothers Radio and some air-air during fly-overs
122.900    Holding over Dare Bomb Ranges
233.700    "Giant Killer" off shore warning area coordination into !st =
Flight airspace
264.400    believed to be USCG
272.750    New Bern Sector,  Washington Center airspace around !st =
Flight
320.200    "Centennial Control"
381.800    USCG
387.200    Wright Brothers Radio and some air-air during fly-overs

Today (Thursday) the 1st Flight airstrip had returned to it's 122.9 =
multicom self announce

Dare County regional Airport was using 119.325 for tower control and =
122.7 for ground
This was probably a temporary assignment for the Centennial traffic =
volume only and
will return to it's 122.8 unicom shortly after all the event planes have =
departed.

NCHP was active on 42.22 ctcss 173.8 the Special Events Ch 19
NCDOT was active on 45.76 and 47.32 both with 107.2 ctcss

Can anyone identify a security police as being civilian, government or =
military wearing  black uniforms with "SBI" Agent in yellow and Police =
"ALE" Agent in yellow . They were providing inside security at the =
event.

Richard Rowland
Richmond, Virginia


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