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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.
This information will be converted to the database soon - this information is courtesy CARMAchicago yahoo group.
MUDDY-## F-16's are en-route. These are or were St. Louis based F-15's, so if it's really them there might be some new air to air discretes to search for. Caught them 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.
They have 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. I don't think the helos have been doing much flying, but I could be wrong.
On 165.850 the only thing I've been hearing are ICE operations for the RCC at O'Hare. I haven't heard a peep from USSS on that one.
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
Some 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
I suspect 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.
I would be kind of surprised if there wasn't some other surveillance platform (AWACS? E2C? J-STARS? UAV? E4B?) in orbit in the area, but I haven't yet heard one myself.
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. I think the F-15's are now on their 7th or 8th tanker. I'm not sure who is doing the refuelling for them. I'm also not sure exactly where UNTOUCHABLES is, but it's configured as a regular (?) track with primary and secondary frequencies assigned - but they are using 228.900 and 260.900 for it so far. A whole lotta gas...
The federal mutual aid and 25 cities systems likely merit some checking. I haven't done that yet. Probably a ton of media freqs out there. The Coast Guard should be guarding the southern shore line.
It would be really cool to glean some of the center frequencies the F-15's are using to transit into and out of WINDY CITY. At this point there is a steady rotation of F-15's between here and Florida. I've heard them mention calling their CP at Eglin ("Base" or "Base Ops") but haven't actually heard that traffic, probably out of range.
I heard a few test counts from HMX-1 on 277.175, but city monitors report hearing them on it quite a bit. If they are under 1000 feet on the southside I tend to lose them out here in the burbs.
Local airports are fun to listen to as the stops dictated by the TFR are driving local general aviation pretty batty. 126.800 should be paired with 308.400 UHF.
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