WA Radio Scanner Users' Group

The Following are the KNOWN frequencies for the Red Bull Air Race 2008

120.85 Race Control to Air ("The Box") Confirmed
127.90 Air Port Control (Langley Tower) Confirmed
465.075 (Some kind of Controll Channel - full details unknown)

104.10 Mhz - Commentary Confirmed
465.90 - Commentary (Alternate) Confirmed

If you know any other frequencies, please Post them, and we will add them to the list.

CTCSS/DCS?

Arnt they on VHF anyway? i would have thought it'd be alot hard to do that then on UHF, with all the UHF commercial gear beeing out there, you cant just got to a comms store and buy a radio without beeing asked for a reason for wanting it, eg business use/ham use, espeacley on the aviation band....

nra555 wrote:CTCSS/DCS?

Arnt they on VHF anyway? i would have thought it'd be alot hard to do that then on UHF, with all the UHF commercial gear beeing out there, you cant just got to a comms store and buy a radio without beeing asked for a reason for wanting it, eg business use/ham use, espeacley on the aviation band....

All (voice communications) aviation frequencies are VHF.

Talking to the manager at Rescue 65 CHC, they know the frequency, but can not tell, unless you walk in and see it up on the white board, he said, listen to Jandakot Tower Sat and Sun, some one for sure who is flying will have forgotten the freq for RBAR and ask the tower who will give it out to that pilot,,thats the closest ive got to finding out, but he said he would tell me on Monday, Also any one who is a pilot and can get into Royal Aero club, its bound to be up in a white board there I think, ? LOL jj

Dear Nathan,

Thanks for your message! You will be able to pick up the race via radio on FM 104.1 mhz.

Kind regards
Barbara

Barbara Proske - Red Bull Air Race GmbH
Press Office
.........................................................
Red Bull Air Race GmbH
Petersbrunnstrasse 17
5020 Salzburg
Austria

only info RBAR would give me, awaiting a responce from AsA

Nafenn wrote:

nra555 wrote:CTCSS/DCS?

Arnt they on VHF anyway? i would have thought it'd be alot hard to do that then on UHF, with all the UHF commercial gear beeing out there, you cant just got to a comms store and buy a radio without beeing asked for a reason for wanting it, eg business use/ham use, espeacley on the aviation band....

All (voice communications) aviation frequencies are VHF.

That's what i ment, you cant buy a Air Band radio without people asking questions, and getting it programmed for the RBAR frequencies would be a mission too one would assume.
either way, doesnt really bother me, i don't have a scanner, i use UHF commercial gear so i cant get that anyway.

I know its off topic and ill probably get abused for it, but anyone selling a decent scanner (portable), I want to join the VBFB and i would like one so i can stay up to date with the happenings...

nra555 wrote:I know its off topic and ill probably get abused for it, but anyone selling a decent scanner (portable), I want to join the VBFB and i would like one so i can stay up to date with the happenings...

Nobody should be abusing anybody

But ... do you want to post that question again in the "For Sale" section so people can respond directly to you there, rather than taking this thread off it's original purpose? That way it keeps things in their proper place...

Cheers!

I had my scanner in at work with me today and these are the frequencies that where being used.

The Following are the Comfirmed frequencies for the Red Bull Air Race 2008

120.85 Race Control to Air
127.90 Air Port Control

MooreFire wrote:I had my scanner in at work with me today and these are the frequencies that where being used.

The Following are the Comfirmed frequencies for the Red Bull Air Race 2008

120.85 Race Control to Air
127.90 Air Port Control

Not doubting you, but I was there yesterday and had both those frequencys locked in and heard not a peep, these freq were quoted before in earlier post,but not proven, these freq were used by ATC for the Australia day flights ? jj

Im going to ask Doug (Zedebee) to confirm those frequencies for me tomorrow.

im sure he will let us know how it goes

Nafenn wrote:Im going to ask Doug (Zedebee) to confirm those frequencies for me tomorrow.

im sure he will let us know how it goes

Great, I will be there and try them out again,,, jj

Nafenn wrote:Im going to ask Doug (Zedebee) to confirm those frequencies for me tomorrow.

im sure he will let us know how it goes

Yep - I've got them programmed into my IC91 now, and will try and remember to take it to work tomorrow. I'm in the city up towards the old Entertainment Centre, so I should be able to tell pretty quickly which ones are active and which ones aren't

120.850 and 127.900 are both active as of 12:00 noon today.

120.850 appears to be ground-to-plane. 127.900 appears to be for the air strip, as best as I can tell from listening quietly at work

Zebedee wrote:120.850 and 127.900 are both active as of 12:00 noon today.

120.850 appears to be ground-to-plane. 127.900 appears to be for the air strip, as best as I can tell from listening quietly at work

Good on you Doug, glad you were listening out and not doing any work,, jj

jasonjag wrote:
Not doubting you, but I was there yesterday and had both those frequencys locked in and heard not a peep, these freq were quoted before in earlier post,but not proven, these freq were used by ATC for the Australia day flights ? jj

Maybe you should make sure the plans are actually flying before come out and doubt somebody jj