Delmarva Milcom Quick List
Welcome to the Delmarva Milcom Quick List article. This article will give the novice milcomer living in the DC Metro and Delaware areas a chance to hear frequencies that have known activity. This is by no means a complete list - see the Delmarva Milcom Monitoring article for a much more complete list of frequencies and users.
This list will vary somewhat depending on where you are in the Delmarva. For example it's far easier to hear the BWI TRACON if you're in the flight path or close to the airport. A good antenna, mounted outdoors nice and high, fed with good coax is a must in this game. Unless you are very close, a rubber duck will not bring much success. With the exception of 157.175 (below) all frequencies are in AM.
Our area is covered by the Washington DC
ARTCC, often referred to as Washington Center. It's callsign is ZDC and is often referred to this way followed by the site, such as ZDC Coyle or ZDC Hagerstown in threads and logs.
[edit] FAA Controllers
Potomac TRACON (1)
- Air Defense Intercept Zone(ADIZ)
- 342.425 ADIZ East
- 236.775 ADIZ West
- 291.775 ADIZ South
- BWI
- 290.475 South Final
- 317.425 GRACO-Hi
- 282.275 North Final
- 307.900 Baltimore-Low (Shares UHF with WOOLY)
- 291.625 Chesapeake
- 307.900 WOOLY
- 254.350 SWANN-Low
- Dulles
- 257.875 LURAY
- 343.775 West Arrival MANNE/Final East IADFE/Final West IADFW/North/Northwest Approaches, Southern Departures RCOLA
- 254.250 BUFFR (Also Westminster 5 Arrival into BWI)
- 350.200 North Departure ASPER
- 338.250 North Arrival MULRR
- 350.200 TILLY
- 239.025 LUCKE
- Reagan (Washington National)
- 306.300 Final East DCAFE
- 257.200 West 9500'& below TYSON
- 335.500 Approach ADWAR
- 322.300 West QJAAY
- 343.700 West 10,000' up to FL 230 FLUKY
- 279.575 Andrews for Arlington Flybys ADWFR
- 269.000 East ENSUE
- 338.200 Final West DCAFW
- 348.725 East 9500' & below KRANT
- 269.500 East 10,000' up to FL 190 DAILY
- 270.275 South East 19,000' down TO 3000' DEALE
[edit] Military
- Atlantic City
- 239.000 Tower
- 261.000 NJ ANG 'Devil' Ops
- 327.125 Approach
- 345.000 Coast Guard Base Ops
- Andrews AFB
- 141.550 Special Air Mission (SAM) Command Post (2)
- 279.575 Potomac TRACON Discrete for Arlington Cemetery Fly-bys
- 335.500 Potomac TRACON Arrival
- 348.725 Potomac TRACON Departure
- 378.100 Special Air Mission (SAM) Command Post
- Dover AFB
- 257.875 Approach
- 269.125 Base Dispatch
- 279.625 Tower
- 282.325 Approach VFR
- 342.000 Weather metro
- 349.400 Command Post
- Giant Killer (NAVY FACSFAC)
- 249.800
- 255.000
- 312.300
- 337.225 Deconflict frequency
- 389.100
- Huntress (NORAD) (3)
- 139.700 Can be used during Combat Air Patrol and Falcon Virgo exercises
- 228.900 Occasional use during Combat Air Patrol exercises
- 260.900 Commonly used during Combat Air Patrol exercises
- Langley AFB flights
- 138.000 VT.ANG Detachment callsign MAPLE
- 235.625 Interflight
- 238.825 Interflight
- 252.775 Interflight
- 262.025 Interflight
- 315.850 Interflight
- 360.150 Interflight
- Martin State
- 143.800 Md.Nat Guard 104th Fighter Squadron - Supervisor of Flying ("Raven Ops")
- 347.200 Md.Nat Guard 175 WG CMD POST ("Raven") Command Post (A-10 Thunderbolt "Warthogs" aircraft)
- 384.100 135th Airlift Squadron ("Crab") Command Post/Operations (C-130J Hercules aircraft)
- Mid Air Refueling and MOAs
- 305.500 AR-20 Primary
- 238.900 AR-636 Primary
- 319.700 AR-636 Secondary
- 306.900/238.100 AR-636 ARCP/Exit
- 228.000 AR-777 Primary
- 315.900 AR-777 Secondary
- 237.200 R-5802A/B Kiowa MOA/Bollen Range (Penn.) Primary ops
- Paxtuxent River NAS
- 250.300 Approach/Departure
- 250.850 Approach
- 281.800 Approach
- 301.200 Approach
- 314.000 Approach
- 318.800 Approach
- 362.600 Approach
- 256.500 Baywatch
- 256.800 Baywatch
- 270.800 Baywatch
- 354.800 Baywatch
- 262.950 Echo Control
- 264.550 Baywatch
- 291.150 Baywatch
- 310.550 Echo Control
- 320.450 Baywatch
- Wallops Island
- 121.700 ground ctrl
- 121.950 Nasa 511 surveillance aircraft
- 123.400 Nasa 432
- 126.500 Tower
- 164.700 Range Safety Officer
- 326.300 alt to 121.95
- 394.300 tower
- Willow Grove NAS
- 266.800 Final approach
- 269.250 Philly Approach
- 291.700 Philly Approach
- 340.200 Tower
- 306.800 Base Ops
- 343.000 ANG Ops
- 351.750 Air Force Ops
- Other Related
- 121.500 VHF Guard frequency
- 126.550 ZDC Guard Dog alternate
- 135.525 ZDC Guard Dog (also used by ARTCC) (4)
- 126.300 Davison AAF tower
- 157.175 USCG helos checking in with USCG Baltimore station FM mode callsign Blackjack
- 350.250 ZDC Guard Dog
The frequencies in this article are available as a comma seperated value (.csv) file. This file type is importable by many of the better scanner programs, and can be used as a source of data using the Excel copy/paste procedure. If you wish a copy please email ka3jjz@NOSPAM.netscape.com (remove the NOSPAM to use). These frequencies will not, for the most part, work well for the PRO-96 or 2096 because those scanners don't cover the UHF milair band.
- Notes
Note 1 : Controllers often echo flight instructions and other information from the VHF side to keep military pilots informed of activity in their area
Note 2 : This frequency seems to have numerous problems - planes often call in several times with no response, and shift to 378.1 for initial contact. A simplex remote base has been suspected to be in erratic use.
Note 3 : These frequencies can see activity at virtually any time.
Note 4 : Guard Dog freqs are most used during Combat Air Patrol exercises
