Monday, May 26, 2008

Airshow Report - Jones Beach NY

Photo of the USAF Heritage Flight over NYC 2006. Photo courtesy of Victoria Arocho and the Jones beach airshow website (http://www.jonesbeachairshow.com/).

Steve Hines, on Long Island, attended the Jones Beach NY Airshow this weekend and passed along this great report on the Milcom newsgroup.

118.8000 Republic Tower
122.7750 Skytypers
123.1500 Show Discrete
123.4750 Golden Knights
128.2500 Air Boss
139.8125 Blue Angels Bravo Comm Cart FM mode
155.5050 New York State Troopers
157.0750 USCG Jones Beach - Marine Channel 81 FM mode
159.3900 Jones Beach State Park
159.4200 Jones Beach State Park Police
237.8000 Blue Angels Solos (behind crowd)
275.3500 Blue Angels Diamond (behind crowd)
284.2500 Blue Angels Show Box
287.5000 106 Rescue Wing
305.5000 Blue Angels Fat Albert
346.5000 Blue Angels Start Up
376.0250 F-22 Demo

Show Simulcast on WHLI 1100 AM

And Dan Myers added the following two freqs to the report (also via Milcom)

The 106th Rescue Wing used 251.900 MHz(secondary) for their air-to-ground rescue demo and also did checks on 282.800 MHz.

Thanks to Steve and Dan for the reports they filed via the Milcom newsgroup on the qth.net network of radio newsgroups.