[SMCARA] Listen to 251.45 AM

[Tom Clarke]

Aha! I thought that freq looked familiar!  It's called "Hot Mic to 
Chase" and allows the chase pilot as well as the folks in the TM control 
room at Range to monitor what is going on in the test article . You get 
to hear all the grunts and groans when he is pulling G's, as well as any 
audio alerts from "B*tching Betty or warning tones/horns! They often 
provide a running commentary during a test that is recorded.  Otherwise 
they would have to jot down a bunch of notes for debrief.

When I was flying tankers, we used to monitor hot mic in order to be one 
step ahead and have the tanker close to the test article when he needed 
gas.  It is embarrassing to have the tanker (brevity code  Texaco) up by 
Lewes and the test pilot finish up his run down by Chincoteague, 100 
miles away!

Tom/W4OKW ex Tanker Pilot



On 6/3/2011 3:04 PM, KG3BOZ wrote:
> A live microphone feed from a test pilot over the range.
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> From: David Hickman [mailto:drhickman at gmail.com]
> Sent: Friday, June 03, 2011 2:58 PM
> To: KG3BOZ
> Subject: Re: [SMCARA] Listen to 251.45 AM
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> So what was it?  The suspense is killing me....
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> On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 8:19 AM, KG3BOZ<kg3boz at md.metrocast.net>  wrote:
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> Interesting
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