[Scan-DC] Laguardia crash question

[Terry Pavlick]

Most airport ground vehicles that interact with the control tower (whether local control or ground control) have radios that have those ATC frequencies programmed into them.   Some even have an actual frequency set aside that the aircraft is told to tune into to talk directly with the fire operations units to coordinate activities    --- example 123.775 at Dulles.

Terry

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> On Mar 25, 2026, at 10:13, C. Patton via Scan-DC <scan-dc at mailman.qth.net> wrote:
> 
> When I was in the Air Force at the AARF Crash house we had a channel that was for tower.  It was NOT direct transmit on the ground frequency on AM.  It was a re-broadcast on our 800 system. Tower talked on AM but our truck talked to our trimmed system that rebroadcasted it on AM.
> 
> I wonder if this is how LaGuardia is doing it.  A note to our system….. since it’s on our trucked system we could broadcast over other stations and step on them accidentally and no one would hear anything but us.  
> 
> Just thoughts
> 
>> On Mar 24, 2026, at 17:38, Andrew Clegg via Scan-DC <scan-dc at mailman.qth.net> wrote:
>> 
>> I would imagine if they’re out on the active taxiways and runways that they have to have aircraft radios, in constant communication with the tower. I know from listening to the DCA tower that their ops teams that search the runways for debris communicate with the tower on the tower frequency, 119.1 MHz, AM. I hear them every day.
>> 
>>>> On Mar 24, 2026, at 5:24 PM, Jeff Krauss via Scan-DC <scan-dc at mailman.qth.net> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I think I heard on the news that a transmission intended for the fire truck was "stepped on."
>>> That can happen if the tower was communicating with aircraft using AM, but fire trucks these days use either FM or digital.
>>> Do the Laguardia fire trucks have AM radios as well as digital??
>>> 
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