Blue Angels snooping on their radios in my front yard (AZ)

The Blue Angels practiced all week in front of my house in Queen Creek, AZ and so I zeroed in on them and set up a mic outside and a receiver inside and split the left and right channels. These are just some highlights. Sorry about the bad camera work. This is the actual performance day with their audio.


118.1000 Air to Air (Active Sep. 6-7, 1997)
118.2000 Air to Air
118.3500 Show Boss "Victor" (Active Sep. 6-7, 1997)
121.7000 Ground (Active Sep. 6-7, 1997)
121.9000 Ground Fuels Ground Support
122.3000 Show Boss
122.9250 Air to Public Address (Active Sep. 6-7, 1997)
123.4000 GCA Common Airshow (Active Sep. 6-7, 1997)
123.4500 GCA Common Airshow
134.1000
141.5600 Maintenance Charlie Operations Ground Support
142.0000 Maintenance ALPHA Ground Support
142.0250 Maintenance Delta Ground Operations Delta (Repeated on 142.625)
142.2600 Maintenance
142.2650 Maintenance Ground Support
142.6250 Maintenance Delta Ground Support Repeater Output
143.0000 Maintenance Bravo Ground Support
143.6000 Maintenance Channel 10 Ground Support
164.9000 Ground Ops, DVP Capable, Simplex
168.9000 Ground Ops, DVP Capable, Simplex (Active Sep. 6-7, 1997)
170.9000 Ground Ops, DVP Capable, Simplex Primary (Active Sep. 6-7, 1997)


Operations

235.1500 Showline
235.5000 Recent use as Alternate Air to Air
238.1500 Formation Air to Air, recent use
241.4000 Air to Air
243.0000 Emergency/MayDay/Distress
245.9000
246.4000 Solo/2-team
250.4000 Air to Air
250.8000 Air to Air
251.4000 Air to Air
251.6000 Flight Line Common
251.8000 Planes 5-6
256.2500 Air to Air
263.3500 Comm 1 Lead & Fat Albert (Active Sep. 6-7, 1997)
263.4500 Air to Air
263.5000 Air to Air Channel
263.6500 Air to Air
264.5500 Air to Air, recent reports
275.3500 Comm 2 Formation Talkback Air to Air
269.9000 Show Boss "Uniform" (Active Sep. 6-7, 1997)
302.1000 F2 Talkback
302.1500 Air to Air F3
304.4000 Recent use as Air to Air Alternate Frequency
307.7000 Blue Angels "Diamond" (Active Sep. 6-7, 1997)
308.2600
318.9000
319.8000 Air to Air
345.9000 Recent use as Alternate Air to Air Frequency
348.6000 Ground Support
360.4000 Comm Solos Air to Air
362.6000 Air Show Control
382.5000
383.4000 Forward Air Traffic Controller at Practice Sites
384.4000 Air to Air / Comm One Number One
391.1000
391.9000 Air to Air
394.4000 Air to Air
395.1000
395.5000
395.9000 Air to Air
408.4000 Rpt. Ground support
418.0500 Ground support

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USN BLUE ANGELS FREQS.
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Not all frequencies are used at all airshows. During practice,
channel usage may not conform to actual airshow usage.

Maintenance / Flightline
------------------------
142.000 Alpha Maintenance (AM) - rpts. on A-A channel
143.000 Bravo Maintenance (AM) - rpts. on A-A channel
141.560 Charlie Maintenance
142.025 Delta Maintenance in (ground support repeater) (FM)
142.625 Delta Maintenance out (ground support repeater) (FM)
143.600 Ch. 10 Maintenance
263.350 Flight Line Common Maintenance
142.2625 Unknown


Flight - Air-to-ground
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118.100 Unknown
118.200 Unknown
121.900 Ground Support (refueling, etc.)
123.400 Common Control
123.450 Common Control
251.600 A-A 8 (planes 5-6, the "soloists)
307.700 A-A 16 (All 6 aircraft)
302.150 A-A 17 (All 6 aircraft - alternate)
275.350 A-A (Diamond formation - planes 1-4)
246.400 A-A (Solo/2-Team)
251.800 A-A 19 (planes 5-6)
302.100 Talkback (?)
348.600 Ground Support (?)
360.400 Soloists (?)
362.600 Air Show Control (?)

241.400 A-A 382.500 A-A
245.900 A-A 384.400 A-A
250.800 A-A 391.100 A-A
263.500 A-A 391.900 A-A
318.900 A-A 395.500 A-A
345.900 A-A 395.900 A-A

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• Blue
• Angels
• Ham
• radio
• amateur
• aviation
• arizona
• phoenix
• airplane
• motor
• sport
• scanner
• Maintenance
• Delta
• Ground
• Support
• Repeater
• dino
• charlie
• alpha
• delta
• airshow
• air
• show
• boss
• talkback
• control
• viper

[jefftoe]

I put all the frequencies in a nicer fashion in the posting's description. And for someone who asked, what I did was I used a video camera with a LONG cable running into my window then into a mpeg capture card on my PC [Jeez, do they even exist anymore?] and then, live, had two audio inputs. Left was my amateur radio equipment hitting their freqs, the other was a LONG ass wire again connected to a microphone in the yard to get the real sound of the planes. My friend was holding the cam.

[jefftoe]

Flight - Air-to-ground 118.100 Unknown 118.200 Unknown 121.900 Ground Support (refueling, etc.) 123.400 Common Control 123.450 Common Control 251.600 A-A 8 (planes 5-6, the "soloists) 307.700 A-A 16 (All 6 aircraft) 302.150 A-A 17 (All 6 aircraft - alternate) 275.350  A-A (Diamond formation - planes 1-4) 246.400 A-A (Solo/2-Team) 251.800 A-A 19 (planes 5-6) 302.100 Talkback (?) 348.600 Ground Support (?) 360.400 Soloists (?) 362.600 Air Show Control (?)

[jefftoe]

Not all frequencies are used at all airshows. During practice,

channel usage may not conform to actual airshow usage.

142.000 Alpha Maintenance (AM) - rpts. on A-A channel

143.000 Bravo Maintenance (AM) - rpts. on A-A channel

141.560 Charlie Maintenance

142.025 Delta Maintenance in (ground support repeater) (FM)

142.625 Delta Maintenance out (ground support repeater) (FM)

143.600 Ch. 10 Maintenance

263.350 Flight Line Common Maintenance

142.2625 Unknown

[jefftoe]

307.7000 Blue Angels "Diamond" (Active Sep. 6-7, 1997) 308.2600 318.9000 319.8000 Air to Air 345.9000 Recent use as Alternate Air to Air Frequency 348.6000 Ground Support 360.4000 Comm Solos Air to Air 362.6000 Air Show Control 382.5000 383.4000 Forward Air Traffic Controller at Practice Sites 384.4000 Air to Air / Comm One Number One 391.1000 391.9000 Air to Air 394.4000 Air to Air 395.1000 395.5000 395.9000 Air to Air 408.4000 Rpt. Ground support 418.0500 Ground support

[pwnjeez]

is he masturbating ?

[jefftoe]

@pwnjeez

lol. It is a bit creepy. I just can't imagine the g-forces they are going through. You can kinda hear it in their voices. I keep waiting for the Boss to say "Thank ya, thank ya very much." (Elvis imitation)

[brsrkr323]

i agree... it calms the other pilots down... at such a close range with that much power... somethin can easily go wrong... it may sound funny... but it really isnt at all

[Andrewfly24]

dude they react to the way his voice is

[kelkelz70]

AWESOME!!!

[AmericanMuscle931]

@Andrewfly24, exactly, they react to the different pitches of his voice

[CaptainVasily]

Very interesting. Nice job.

[viper8red]

Wonder if he says that to his wife when getting a tug-job.. "A little PullllLLLllllLLLLLLLLlll ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh"

[1Jo0o1]

that's so cool! I wished they would train in my front yard! xD

[spudgunster]

@jefftoe The boss speaks slower or faster to indicate to the rest of the team the way the maneuver is to be performed... Not because he's strained

[ricksteffey123]

That is very cool, I dreamed of flying with these guys when I was a kid.

[brsrkr323]

@aeromexicopilotman no i havent but i have heard the pilot communication is a bit different then what we hear with the blue angels...

[aeromexicopilotman]

@brsrkr323 have you heard the red arrows?

[pwnjeez]

@jefftoe

idd, also - search for "red arrows radio"

they are the exact opposite of the blue angels in the comms,

red 1 (i guess) is really yelling it all out, i mean, i think at one point

one of the other pilot said "WHAT HAPPEND?"