Do It Yourself Military Callsigns!

Sometimes I get rather obsessive with military callsigns. Let's face it no military callsign list is complete, they never will be. It may be one of the most fluid parts of our hobby. Callsigns are constantly changing, such is the way of the military. There are several lists available on the web, some good ones that come to mind are:

The Guide's Internet Callsign List: www.the-guide.nl/callsign

And Hugh Stegman's (MT editor) Callsign List: http://www.ominous-valve.com/callsign.txt

Sometimes the updates for these list may run a little long. We all know its not an easy task to keep up with. In fact on Hugh Stegman's page he says (forever under construction). These gentlemen do us a wonderful service. However this is also a part of the hobby where you need to do things in your own way. Thus I have started my own military callsign list using a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet (Freeware Open Office also works great and they are interchangable). I input any callsigns garnered from my own monitoring and those posted to various lists such as QTH.net's Milcom list. Using a good spreadsheet program you can configure it however you wish, to show as little or as much information as you like. I know many of us keep our own lists, if you have not started one yet, I strongly urge you to do so. Its easy and I actually find it quite enjoyable. It is just another form of collecting.
You can always use the other lists as cross reference sources. With these tools at your command you can't go wrong when you do it yourself!

Holiday Week Milcom

The 180th FW from Toledo is flying the skies of Ohio this morning.
Using the callsigns JOKER and STING, the following are active @ 1050 Local.

139.6250 Air Tactical
139.9750 Air Tactical
288.3000 AR-219 Exit
290.5000 Indianapolis Center London Low Discrete
383.3000 Jefferson Proving Grounds Range Control

Monday Milcom Activity

The 122nd FW (IN ANG) out of Fort Wayne is up in the
Buckeye MOA this afternoon. They are using the callsign IRISH (flight x4). The following frequencies are active as of 1245 local:


139.7500 V16 Air to Air Tactical


@1450 Local

STING 33 (flight x2) 180th FW OH ANG Toledo

139.6250 Air to Air
139.9750 Air Tactical
143.8500 ACM
283.8000 Refueling

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Welcome

Welcome, to my new blog for disseminating information on monitoring military communications in and around the Great State of Ohio. Ohio sees quite a lot of aeronautical military activity, as does our neighboring states. There's lots to listen to, so this is where we start.