UHF mil air

[jsoergel]

Hi all,

Stumbled across this thread via chance. I do HF occasionally, but I monitor local milair in the SW Ohio area and I might be able to pitch in since I see a few of you are catching Toledo and Fort Wayne traffic.

Feel free to follow me @jsoergel949 on Twitter; I try to post there when I’m able to listen in real time.

Jared
Cincinnati, OH

[Josh]

143.6250mHz 1224Z 04MAY21
Unid om in French, then test counts by at least 3 players in "Canadian" english or accents spoken by non US english users.

US CAP has holdings on the freq in question but this signal had the characteristics of an airborne or sat intercept.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voskhod-M

the mir space station also used this qrg and is listed as soyuz and iss so my moneys on iss and related

[ChrisSmolinski]

143.6250mHz 1224Z 04MAY21
Unid om in French, then test counts by at least 3 players in "Canadian" english or accents spoken by non US english users.

US CAP has holdings on the freq in question but this signal had the characteristics of an airborne or sat intercept.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voskhod-M

the mir space station also used this qrg and is listed as soyuz and iss so my moneys on iss and related

Nice catch!

[~SIGINT~]

I miss the days when we actually had more UHF MIL air traffic communication. I used to regularly listen to activity over Lake Ontario. It has been very quiet now for probably a decade. One of my favourites was 311.0, STRATO CONTROL which carried the UHF equivalent to the High Frequency Global Communications System (HFGCS) SKYKING broadcasts. Since we no longer have any HF "skyking skyking do not answer" messages, I have not heard any traffic on 311.0 nor have I heard the STRATO CONTROL call sign since then. The STRATO CONTROL call sign was the equivalent to the HF MAINSAIL call sign. Just as the HF simulcasts broadcasts, that UHF frequency would come up at the exact same time and carry the EAM.

I would be currious if anyone actually still picks up any UHF MIL traffic in this AOR (Toronto). I have the receivers and antennae for it and would be willing to park on some frequencies and monitor.

239.9   US Air Refuelling (Pri)
282.7   US Air Refuelling (Sec)
283.8   Air to Air
327.9   Format Training

311.0   SAC (Pri) C/S STRATO CONTROL
321.0   SAC (Sec)

340.2   US Navy Control Towers
275.8   USAF Control Towers
273.0   US Military Base ATC

[sat_dxer]

AR-307A 264.9MHz 2 Feb /22 1904z until los

[NJQA]

On this page, that I've linked to in several places in this very thread, is a box where you can enter your zip and see logs from within whatever rx range chosen;
http://www.milradiocomms.com/mil_freq_database.html

I’d advise caution on this link.  It worked for me a long time ago when I tried it, but now it delivers strange behavior and browser security alerts.  I think it is compromised.