UHF airband monitoring

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This page is still under construction .......... Please have some patience. But you can email me already for more information or if you have any suggestions for this homepage, Aerocom@xs4all.nl

Welcome to this page, the first one on the World Wide Web dedicated to monitoring military aircraft communications on the UHF (225-400 Mhz) airband. Listening to these comms is for me one of the most challenging, interesting and exciting areas of radio monitoring. Let me first tell you something about myself and the reason behind this homepage.

I started listening to military aircraft comms in the early eighties, when I was serving in the Dutch Air Force at CRC (Control and Reporting Centre) Nieuw Milligen. From that bunker, in those days situated next to the Dutch Military Air Traffic Control Centre, the skies over Europe were watched 24 hours a day. Unknown or unidentified aircraft were intercepted by fighter controllers, working under the air defense callsign Bandbox. Via secure land-lines and radio links, this CRC was connected to many others all over Western Europe.

Over the years my interest in monitoring and listening to these sites has grown. This resulted in many monitoring 'field' trips to CRCs all over Europe, in order to get a better understanding on the way the NATO air defense network operates, and to find the frequencies being used.

The problem however, is that a lot of information on this network is not available to the general public. The frequencies being used are classified and are not listed in aeronautical publications like NOTAMs or FLIPs. Even the exact locations and callsigns of the sites are sometimes difficult to find, as they are still regarded confidential.

For those of you interested in IRC, you can now participate in real-time, live chats about monitoring the airband. We hold weekly meetings on channel #airband, Monday evenings at 2100 UTC. You will need to connect to the UltraNet network, a suitable server is 'irc.mirage.co.uk'.

Hopefully this homepage will provide information to airband monitors and others interested in the fascinating world of listening to the UHF (225-400 Mhz) airband. Also, this homepage will be a good starting point if you are looking for up-to-date information on air defense exercises, the frequencies being used and in the future you will find here a list of interesting air-to-air and ops frequencies. For the moment this site will be under construction, but if you have any questions or remarks already, please feel free to email them to Aerocom@xs4all.nl.

NATO GCI frequenties gewijzigd op 5 Augustus 1996

Op 5 augustus 1996 was het dan eindelijk zover ! In Nederland, Belgie en Duitsland werden alle gci frequenties gewijzigd. Inmiddels zijn er al weer de nodige gevonden. Hieronder volgt nu een overzicht van de nieuwe frequenties per site. Aanvullingen zijn altijd welkom natuurlijk.

August 5th 1996 all NATO gci frequencies were changed in the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany. Most of the new ones have been discovered again already, please click on one of the following links for the new frequencies for each site.

- Bandbox / CRC Nieuw Milligen
- Efflux / CRC Glons
- Galley CRP
- Mindreader / CRC Pragsdorf

Spangdahlem AFB monitoring page
This is the latest addition to this airband homepage. When finished, you will find here ALL the frequencies (VHF/UHF), that are in use at Spangdahlem. Plus the squadron callsigns, ops frequencies and information on gci stations in the area.

Air National Guard
This is another addition to this airband monitoring homepage. One of my personal favourites, is listening to the Air National Guard. Sometimes we are lucky enough to hear a few of their aircraft crossing through our airspace on their way to Italy in support of Bosnia air operations. Also, their tankers are on rotations at RAF Mildenhall and Geilenkirchen airbase, in support of the NATO AWACS operations. So enough opportunities to monitor the ANG here in Europe.

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