2010 Vectren Dayton Air Show Frequencies

Ohio Milcom Blog Reporters Darryl Furguson, Tony Stewart and Rod Villari are checking in with frequencies monitored for this year's Dayton Airshow.

AERONAUTICAL OPERATIONS:

123.150                 Air Show Discrete
123.475                 Sean Tucker
124.900                 Air Boss
139.8125 NFM  67.0 PL   Blue Angels Maintenance
142.6125 NFM  67.0 PL   Blue Angels Tower Spotter
237.800                 Blue Angels Solos
275.350                 Blue Angels Diamond
284.250                 Blue Angels Show Box
305.900                 Fat Albert
346.500                 Blue Angels Check List
384.550                 Unknown Use


SUPPORT FREQUENCIES:

451.500        Airshow operations?  (repeater)
451.800        Shuttle Buses
456.800        Gate Ops
460.4625       Parking (narrow band ?, low modulation)
469.500        Vendors
469.550        Vendors

180th FW Night Operations

The 180th FW out of Toledo are conducting night ops in Brush Creek MOA as of 10:00 PM Thursday. They are using their standard callsign STING on the following:

139.6250 -- Air to Air
141.6000 -- ACM
291.7250 -- Cleveland Center
338.9000 -- 180th FW Command Post

BACK IN ACTION

I have the IBM ThinkPad 760ED and Probe v7 back up and running. I'm slowly getting the frequencies back into it, up to 205 so far.


Here is what is being heard as of 10:20 AM local this morning:




138.3500 --- CLAW (flight of 4), 178th FW OHANG Springfield V14
139.5500 --- CLAW Air Tactical in R-5503
143.8750 --- CLAW Air Combat Maneuvers
240.3500 --- 123rd ACS Blue Ash coordinating CLAW flight
316.7000 --- CLAW wkg Dayton Approach
291.7750 --- CLAW w/ Springfield Tower RTB


Afternoon session as of 1:15 PM:

142.5500 ---- COACH 21 - 24 (Flight of 4) Air Tactical
240.3500 ---- COACH w/ BLUE ASH for ACM (this may possibly be Uniform 15 in their radios)

AR-315 Active

This afternoon (Monday 12/04) I have heard some aerial refueling taking place in AR-315 over Kentucky. This was a great monitoring session as I caught three tail numbers being passed. The 434th ARW out of Grissom ARB was doing the refueling of STING aircraft from the 180th FW out of Toledo and a C-5B from Dover AFB showed up as well using the callsign BOLAR 70.

295.4000 AR-315 Primary

MASH 81 Tail# 60-0322
MASH 82 Tail #58-0076
BOLAR 70 Tail# 87-0027

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