Plymouth Air Safety

[tomed]

I came across this frequency this afternoon 3924 usb. After monitoring it only for a15 mins there was quite a lot of activity. From what i could gather it is the frequency for plymouth air safety. Any info regarding this frequency would be much appreciated. It was coming in quite strong (into North Wales) at 20 over 6...Thanks in advance.

[bigbassman]

I've just picked it up here in Co.Down.(20.40)Talking about traffic landing at Culdrose AFB.Very strong signal.

[Hanglands]

A good find tomed.

I tried it for a while last night, and got some interesting conversations.

Just switched on again 20 minutes ago and got something along the lines of :

"Delta-something-or-other this is Plymouth Air Safety. Your rendezvous with Sierra-whatever brings you in line with a live firing exercise, suggest you reconsider. Over"

Definately a freq for fans of Kinloss Rescue.

Regards,
S.

[tomed]

A good find tomed.

I tried it for a while last night, and got some interesting conversations.

Just switched on again 20 minutes ago and got something along the lines of :

"Delta-something-or-other this is Plymouth Air Safety. Your rendezvous with Sierra-whatever brings you in line with a live firing exercise, suggest you reconsider. Over"

Definately a freq for fans of Kinloss Rescue.

Regards,
S.

Yes i am quite chuffed to have found this quite active frequency! I have found another one today which again was quite active and that is 5267 this is one of the Plymouth fost frequencies plus i heard a brief transmission on 6690 listed in the airwaves 2009 book as a Raf/Awacs frequency.

[swallow]

Fost Kilo control is active most days on 5206 usb and RN ships calling plymouth on 2487 so they might be worth putting in your radio

[tomed]

Fost Kilo control is active most days on 5206 usb and RN ships calling plymouth on 2487 so they might be worth putting in your radio

Thanks for that. I have the 5206 but was not aware of the 2487 frequency....Malcolm.

[5thElement]

Will put these into a memory and have a listen myself,sounds quite interesting!

Cheers for sharing them

[mikecharlie]

Thanks for those as well, might be interesting, I like monitoring Kinloss, so these might be of interest to me.

Is Plymouth Air safety silimar to Kinloss with regards to the responsibilities Kinloss has? I.e SAR ops?
Also what is 'fost' by the way?

[swallow]

plymouth air safety don't deal with SAR their main responsability is to provide safe transit through or near the plymouth and surrounding danger areas. they work in conjunction with plymouth mil radar and give weather info to RN ships and military aircraft.

FOST stands for Flag Officer Sea Training theres more about it on the mod website http://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/training-an ... -training/
FOST involves exercises which are usually carried out on thursday so its known as the "Thursday War" however they seem to carry out fost operations most weekdays. RNAS Culdrose plays a big part in the training with the use of their black Bae Hawks simulating air/air combat. you may want to try the Culdrose Ops Primary HF freq which is 5725 USB and quite active during the daytime.

[tomed]

plymouth air safety don't deal with SAR their main responsability is to provide safe transit through or near the plymouth and surrounding danger areas. they work in conjunction with plymouth mil radar and give weather info to RN ships and military aircraft.

FOST stands for Flag Officer Sea Training theres more about it on the mod website http://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/training-an ... -training/
FOST involves exercises which are usually carried out on thursday so its known as the "Thursday War" however they seem to carry out fost operations most weekdays. RNAS Culdrose plays a big part in the training with the use of their black Bae Hawks simulating air/air combat. you may want to try the Culdrose Ops Primary HF freq which is 5725 USB and quite active during the daytime.

Thanks swallow for the info regarding plymouth air safety ect i now know what i'm listening to. I've yet to catch one of the culdrose frequencies so i'll try the one you mentioned. Thanks again..Malcolm.

[mikecharlie]

Thanks for that reply and the additional frequency, at least I know a bit more and the best tilmes to listen.

Had a try today of the frequencies while flitting back and forth to 5.680 but didnt get anything.

[yagiman]

Dear member
Are those frequencies still in use
The Royal Navy frequencies