[Scan-DC] Reagan or BWI?

[Steve Thompson]

The controllers for Potomac Tracon are all at its facility in Vint Hill, 
Virginia, near Warrenton.  The transmitters are remoted, in this case at 
BWI.  In the list I prepared and sent last weekend, I listed frequencies 
according to the airport they serve and these came up as Reagan because 
they serve Reagan.  They serve BWI, too, but I don't have BWI on the list 
yet.  (I've had requests to add it and may have time this weekend to do so.)

I think that by listing the freqs by airport, rather than by what the FAA 
calls a "facility" (in this case Potomac Tracon), I've created confusion on 
the list here.  Those of us who monitor tend to think of what "facility" or 
"service" we're monitoring, rather than follow the FAA's practice of 
listing frequencies according to the airport they serve (at least on the 
IFR publications).  Maybe I should revise the listing in its next 
iteration, or provide both.

Steve, N4TX

At 02:52 PM 3/20/2009, ka3jjz at netscape.com wrote:
>I just flipped on both 128.7 and 124.55 to check whether I can still hear 
>the Potomac controllers. Steve's list had these out of Reagan, but both 
>are well known to BWI listeners. Sure enough they're still loud and clear 
>here, both in departure service as I write this.
>
>There's no way these 2 transmitters would be out of the Reagan area - with 
>this simple setup, I just could not hear them were that true. However, 
>it's quite possible the personnel are at Reagan and remotely controlling 
>the transmitters. That I could buy. I guess to a certain extent it's a 
>matter of interpretation as to how the FAA pubs are interpreted   73 Mike
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