[SMCARA] Listen to 251.45 AM

[Martin Gary]

Sorry about that last reply/waste of bandwidth. I didn't read your reply, Tom until after I posted.....Yea Hotmic to Chase... we just called it hotmic. It transmits everything that audibly happens in the plane.  If you want to hear everything that's the one to listen to. There's more than one so it still pays to scan around if you want to heat them all. Sometimes they have multiple flights, so there will be several transmitting at the same time. It can be pretty interesting depending on what they're doing.      
73, Marty

Jun 3, 2011 10:58:16 PM, w4okw at md.metrocast.net wrote:

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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  wrote:
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> Interesting
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