Unprecedented Kentucky National Guard Activation

The Governor of Kentucky, Steve Beshear just called out the entirety of the Kentucky National Guard and some Kentucky Air National Guard assets to deploy to western Kentucky to render assistance to those affected by the huge Winter Storm that struck Kentucky a few days back.

This is a great opportunity to plug in those KYNG and EMA frequencies for activity. There may also be activity on the Kentucky State Police digital frequencies as units closer to our area head west on I-71. This is the largest ever deployment of the Kentucky National Guard in the history of the Commonwealth.


Frequencies from the MONIX Master Frequency List:

137.075 KYEMA/KYNG in to 149.825
138.425 N293 KYEMA/KYNG 3
139.0625 P25 KYEMA/KYNG in to 139.4625
139.2125 P25 KYEMA/KYNG 4
139.250 KYEMA/KYNG F3
139.350 KYEMA/KYNG F4
139.4625 P-25 KYEMA/KYNG 2 139.0625 in
139.6625 P-25 KYEMA/KYNG
139.9625 P-25 KYEMA/KYNG 2 in to 139.465
148.785 P-25 KYEMA/KYNG
140.790 P-25 KYEMA/KYNG
141.365 P25 KYEMA/KYNG 1 in to 148.750
142.350 67.0 KYEMA/KYNG Statewide Net Ch 1 Simplex
Ch 2 Rpt 143.000 in
142.475 KYNG CH 3 148.575 in
142.6625 P-25 KYEMA/KYNG
143.000 67.0 KYNG input to 142.350
143.275 162.2 KYEMA/KYNG

You may also want to check out the FEMA frequencies on the MONIX List as well.

If anyone catches any activity from the action,
please post back to the blog here.

Last Three F-16s leave Michigan Behind

Monday January 12th saw the last three F-16s of the 127th FW of the Michigan Air National Guard at Selfridge AFB leave Michigan behind for their new home at Fort Wayne, Indiana and the 122th FW of the Indiana Air National Guard. The 127th FW is changing to the A-10 as the fleet from Battle Creek, MI move to over to Selfridge.

Chuck Rapacki in Detroit checks in with the details of the flight;

MACE 91 x 3 (Last MI F-16's).
413.050 MACH. Aircraft 498 is cranked, 01:46pm. Taxi
503, 02:02pm. (I never heard the last tail# mentioned)

225.400 MTC twr, MACE 91 taxi into position & hold,
02:22pm. MACE 91 you're cleared for T/O contact dep,
02:23pm.

391.900 MTC dep, departure MACE 91 climbing to the
block 3 to 4 thousand, 02:24pm. Turning left 090,
passing 3800ft for 10000ft MACE 91.

290.425 Cleveland Center 02:29pm. MACE 91 passing 10 for 14
thousand, left turn direct Fort Wayne 02:30pm. Center
MACE 91 req dir FREEDOM (Hilltop MOA) that's Fox Romeo
Echo Delta Mike, 02:31pm.

138.626 A/A Looks like we're not going to make it to
the MOA in time. we'll go dir FWA & do some low app's
to burn down gas then land.

281.425 Cleveland Center 02:33pm. Center req dir FWA. Dir FWA,
02:39pm. Left 230, MACE leaving 14 thousand for 11
thousand, 02:45pm.

138.626 FWA Ops. Talking to Ops 02:36pm. 2 is code 2
for Uniform radio, 1 & 3 are both code 1, 02:40pm.
MACE push it up to MACH .85, 02:43pm.

284.600 FWA app, approach MACE 91 flt of 3, 30 to the
NE, req ILS trail runway 5 low app, 02:48pm.
272.725 FWA twr, never heard them switch to twr.

app = Approach
dep = Departure
dir = Direct
FWA = Fort Wayne airport.
MTC = Selfridge ANGB.
req = Request
T/O = Take off
twr = Tower
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Local 123rd ACS OHANG Heading to Iraq

Members of the 123rd Air Control Squadron of the Ohio Air National Guard based at Blue Ash Airport have been called to active duty and will soon deploy to Iraq. They will operate an air traffic control center and provide radar data to ground troops on military air traffic.

The 123rd ACS controls the Brush Creek and Buckeye Military Operations Areas (MOA) [R-5503 A/B] located to the east of Cincinnati.