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Voila!  A list of airshow radio frequencies for some of your more common visitors!

I'm not sure if it's the same set of freqs for every location, but I'm sure at least some of these will be accurate for you:


Blue Angels

118.100
118.200
118.350 - Show Boss Victor
121.700 - Ground Support
121.900 - Ground Support
122.950 - Air to PA
123.400 - Common Airshow
134.100
140.050
141.560 - Maintenance Charlie
142.000 - Maintenance Alfa
142.025 - Maintenance Delta
142.260 - Ground
142.265 - Ground
142.625 - Maintenance
143.600 - Maintenance Channel 10
143.000 - Maintenance Bravo
146.2625
163.600
164.900 - Ground
168.900 - Ground
170.000 - Ground
170.900 - Ground
408.400 - Ground Support
418.050 - Ground Support

Golden Knights

32.300 - Operations
45.350 - Primary
122.925 - Freedom 1 & 2 Minijets
123.000 - Air to ground support
123.400 - Air coordination
123.450 - Air to ground support
123.475 - Air to ground support
123.500 - Air to ground support
124.000

Silver Eagles

30.500 - Air to Ground Comms
149.800 - Air to Ground Support

Snowbirds

141.850 - Air to air
413.025 - Ground Crew

Thunderbirds

114.950
118.100 - Operatons
118.200 - Operations
120.450 - Operations
123.400 - Airshow Common
123.450 - Air to air
124.920
134.100 - Operatons
138.875 - Operations
140.000 - Operations
140.400 - Air to air
141.300 - Operations
141.850 - Victor 1 (Primary)
142.000
143.100 - Ground Operations
143.5875
143.850 - Victor 2 (Secondary)
148.175
148.550 - Operations
148.850 - Operations
413.000
413.025 - Ground Operations F1
413.100 - Ground Operations F2

very helpful for our US friends. Sadly none of those appear over here. Would be nice to have some for the Reds though. usually put through on the loud speakers anyway.

The Reds one is published and should be easy enough to find...

Thank ya Scott.

Ummm, I thought it was illegal to post the frequencies that the BA and other U.S. military flights use???
Or at least that is what I was told at Peroria last year when I asked so I could listen in on the BAs.
Myself and about 20 others were scanning to find the ones they used and got a couple of them but it was my understanding that this list is not allowed to be given to the public but if you happen upon it not much they can do.

Never heard that....I happened upon it. (Posted, of course.)  Perhaps someone will happen upon it here...

well either way I'm writing them down and will give them a try this year
Doesnt hurt to have them!
Thanks

Yeah great and how about to interfier in these frequecies and confuse them when they are in action to see what happends...
sorry fellows im not agree this stuff should be secret  

I don't think anyone here intends to transmit on those freqs... besides, they're common enough frequencies easily found by anyone with a scanning receiver... the potential crime lies not in knowing those frequencies, or listening to them, but transmitting without authorization.
There are always FAA people at airshows, and I have yet to see anyone have their receiver confiscated for listening to airshow comms.

Yeah great and how about to interfier in these frequecies and confuse them when they are in action to see what happends...
sorry fellows im not agree this stuff should be secret  

Wouldn't matter. They don't use the radios for seperation or basic flying, only to synchronize stunts. As soon as they heard someone transmitting they could stop maneuvers and break formation if needed.

Added to the fact these are airshow only freqs once the display is over they will switch back to military freq's which to most scanners are not avaliable. As for transmitting on the freq, you need a tranceiver which are expensive and then you could be tracked and put in prison if you do so.

Added to the fact these are airshow only freqs once the display is over they will switch back to military freq's which to most scanners are not avaliable. As for transmitting on the freq, you need a tranceiver which are expensive and then you could be tracked and put in prison if you do so.

Indeed. You'll probably find that they are simultaneously transmitting on UHF and VHF frequencies. Any interference and the action would be simple - turn off the VHF...

I don't think anyone here intends to transmit on those freqs....

rottydaddy i wasn't talking about my dear people from simv,there are a few lunatics here including myself  ;D ,but not terrorist It just an opinion, for security reasons....eg before 9/11 you could even get to the cockpit and have an take a look,to the pilots working,nobody saw how dangerous it was,and now you can go to prision even get close to those new security doors,maybe im exagerating in all this.I didn't mean to offend anybody here

No offense taken, alrot...
I just don't see why it needs to be secret. Waste of effort (any old scanner will pull up those freqs in moments if within range), when you could just use freqs exclusive to military-spec radios (hey wait a sec- don't they have that?). Or not sweat the very small chance some idiot horns in on or jams the freq they're using.
It should be a crime to interfere, but not to merely listen.

As for transmitting on the freq, you need a tranceiver which are expensive and then you could be tracked and put in prison if you do so.

As far as i'm aware the only way to track someone with one of those is to triangulate on the signal when broadcasting. Which means that to stand any chance of being caught they've actually got to be looking for you in the first place and then you've got to transmit for long enough for them to get an accurate fix on you, which could take hours.