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POTUS - Information
- Information listed here will be in reference to The 44th President of the United States, Barack Obama's visits to his hometown of Chicago, IL and is courtesy of CARMAchicago yahoo group.
MUDDY-## F-16's
- Working Chgo Center on 269.075 and tried to enter the CAP on 353.550, switched to the new 363.125 frequency.
ARTCC
- 363.125 is being used for Chicago center contact, not hearing much on 353.550, they may have switched
Huntress currently on 260.900, backup is 228.900. Arrow flights in comms with Chicago Center on 317.400. Other frequencies being used at this time are 320.950, 353.550 and 256.800.
Snagged another F15 discrete, in use right now - 316.450. Also had a brief open AM carrier this morning on 338.750, but no traffic.
Assigned Boom freqs for Refuelling:
- 282.650 Primary
- 271.000 Secondary
But they don't appear to be using them. All refuelling taking place on 228.900 for coordination and 260.900 for refuelling.
Copters are staged at 39th street, not 31st street. Landing area secured and fenced in. 166.7000 (P25) may be in use there on scene.
F15 pilots are trying to set up temporary staging in and out of St. Louis today to save fuel and commute times. They've been calling Flight Service Stations on 255.400 between here, Florida and D.C. to get their weather updates.
MUDDY 11 & 13 (TOL F-16's)
- 228.900 Huntress, MUDDY A/A, cleared off for ATIS & inflight, 01:32am.
- 127.625 Chi.C. 01:33am.
- 143.850 V01 Ops, we have Bravo (ATIS) plan to land on rnwy 7, 01:34am.
- 127.675 Cleve.C. 01:37am.
- 134.350 TOL app, 01:43am.
Vocabulary
- WINDY CITY - The Chicago Combat Air Patrol
- UNTOUCHABLES - The refuelling track, nearby but unknown
- GUARD DOG CAP - Washington DC Combat Air Patrols
- MARSA - Military Assumes Responsibility for Separation of Aircraft
- AS FRAGGED - as scheduled
- RTB - Return to Base
- TRACK - Radar contacts
- BULLSEYE - Reference point(s) of CAP orbit, bearings, distance, etc
- NIGHTHAWKS - HMX-1 Presidential Helo Squadron, Including MARINE-1
- ARROW-## - 58th Fighter Squadron, 33rd FW Eglin AFB F-15's
- HUNTRESS - NORAD
- LINK 16 - Secure Data Link system
Related Links
- http://www.33fw.acc.af.mil/
- http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/agency/usaf/58fs.htm
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link_16
- http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/policy/army/fm/6-24-8/tadilj.pdf
Frequencies: (Confirmed) (AM Mode)
- 260.900 UNTOUCHABLES/HUNTRESS Primary
- 228.900 UNTOUCHABLES/HUNTRESS Secondary
- 353.550 WINDY CITY Chgo Center Kankakee Primary
- 256.800 WINDY CITY Chgo Center Kankakee Secondary
- 315.600 WINDY CITY Chgo TRACON contact
- 320.950 ARROW discrete
- 305.450 ARROW discrete
- 277.175 HMX-1 CONTROL
- 126.800 Chgo Radar TFR advisory service
- 127.925 O'Hare Tower AF1 and Helo ops at field
- 123.025 Chgo Copter Route Advisory
- 225.750 Eglin AFB 58th FS Command Post
(FM Mode)
- 362.250 Airforce 1 Northstar FM/MPX downlink
- 460.250 CPD Citywide 6
- 166.5125 USSS Sierra WHCA command post (mostly encrypted P25)
- 164.8875 USSS Oscar Presidential Detail (mostly encrypted P25)
- 165.8500 USSS P25
Other possible F-15 discretes:
- 338.750 369.150 259.550 316.450 253.700 326.475 276.550 257.350
Other likely frequencies for HMX-1:
- 361.600 276.400 273.950 265.800 142.750 122.850
- 166.700 (FM P25 USSS November)
Other likely frequencies for USSS, FM analog and P25:
- 165.375, 165.7875, 165.2125, 164.650, 164.400, 164.4625, 165.625, 167.0375
It is suspected the F-15's may have a discrete air to air chat frequency assigned by pairs of aircraft. They have two UHF radios. One is normally tuned to WINDY CITY and the other to UNTOUCHABLES, so they have to leave one to chat on discrete. 305.450 was used extensively last night. They sometimes chat about radar track (targets) but they are mostly exchanging their track data via Link 16.
HMX-1 is reportedly staged on Chicago Park District land north of 31st street beach, south of McCormick Place and east of Lake Shore Drive. UNTOUCHABLES is configured as a regular track with primary and secondary frequencies assigned - but they are using 228.900 and 260.900 for it so far.
Test counts from HMX-1 on 277.175, but city monitors report hearing them on it quite a bit. .
Frequency Input License Type Tone Alpha Tag Description Mode Tag 139.94000 M Tactical / Air-to-Air AM Military 139.95000 M A.I.C.C./G.C.I. RADAR OPS (with AWAC.S) AM Military 139.95000 M Tactical / Air-to-Air AM Military 140.12500 M Tactical / Air-to-Air AM Military 228.45000 M Tactical / Air-to-Air AM Military 237.15000 M A.I.C.C./G.C.I. RADAR OPS (with AWAC.S) AM Military 240.15000 M Tactical / Air-to-Air AM Military 248.15000 M Tactical / Air-to-Air AM Military 249.15000 M Tactical / Air-to-Air AM Military 251.25000 M A.I.C.C./G.C.I. RADAR OPS (with AWAC.S) AM Military 252.52500 M Tactical / Air-to-Air AM Military 267.10000 M A.I.C.C./G.C.I. RADAR OPS (with AWAC.S) AM Military 293.60000 M A.I.C.C./G.C.I. RADAR OPS (with AWAC.S) AM Military 294.00000 M Tactical / Air-to-Air AM Military 294.90000 M A.I.C.C./G.C.I. RADAR OPS (with AWAC.S) AM Military 297.90000 M PRI. A/G OPS. AM Military 299.50000 M Tactical / Air-to-Air AM Military 303.00000 M Tactical / Air-to-Air AM Military 340.15000 M Tactical / Air-to-Air AM Military 347.30000 M Tactical / Air-to-Air AM Military 351.40000 M A.I.C.C./G.C.I. RADAR OPS (with AWAC.S) AM Military 379.10000 M A.I.C.C./G.C.I. RADAR OPS (with AWAC.S) AM Military