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Air Traffic Monitoring => Listener Forum => Topic started by: puppeto on April 02, 2011, 03:18:18 AM
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I'll be moving to Biloxi in June and was looking at possibly setting up a feed for KBIX as I'll be living little less than a mile from the airbase. I have heard that for most military comms that I will need a high-end scanner that supports up to 200 - 400mhz and am needing some recommendations on how to put together this kind of setup.
I haven't seen any feeds listed for any military bases yet. I have noticed a lot activity in and out of the base and figured this may make for an interesting feed. I would especially love to record and archive the hurricane hunters during their ops as they are based out of KBIX.
Another thing... is there any legal or security issues with a feed like this? Is this sort of stream generally frowned upon?
If so I may look at doing a KGPT feed with a more standard setup, but it may be too weak at that distance.
Suggestions / comments are greatly appreciated. :-D
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Same question here. I live about 3 miles from KGRK..... (dual military/civilian use). Don't know the legalities.
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I haven't seen any feeds listed for any military bases yet
I stream KTPA App/Dep , Albert Whitted, and Mac Dill AFB Cent Command. The freqs just arnt updated yet.
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If you browse the LIVEATC feeds you will find quite a few military feeds. There is nothing illegal (IMHO) with feeding those freqs. You will mostly hear the same kind of exchanges that you normally hear on 118-136MHz except the military uses faster and shorter transmissions with lots of "Buzz" words that only the military uses.
I believe the Hurricane Hunters use HF and satellite phones when flying around hurricanes, if at all. They don't have time to talk while investigating inside a hurricane. When taking off and landing they use the UHF freqs to talk to approach and tower. :-D
I found this hurricane hunter info with a google search:
http://forums.radioreference.com/hf-mw-lw-general-discussion/4397-how-find-hurricane-hunters-read-tcpod.html (http://forums.radioreference.com/hf-mw-lw-general-discussion/4397-how-find-hurricane-hunters-read-tcpod.html)
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With the exception of fighters, most military aircraft are equipted with, and use, VHF frequencies. I know they are equipted with UHF also. I have seen fighters equipted with VHF as well, but they seem to prefer UHF.