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For Lifeflight of Maine and Boston Medflight, you may hear the helicopters on the "air to ground" frequency even if you can't hear the repeater.
 
For Lifeflight of Maine and Boston Medflight, you may hear the helicopters on the "air to ground" frequency even if you can't hear the repeater.
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*The Northeast Air Alliance has adopted the use of VTAC11, UTAC41D or 8TAC91D for landing zone coordination vs coming up on individual agency frequencies when coordinating landing zones in Massachusetts. (May 2022)
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*The New Hampshire Department of Public Safety has adopted the use of VMED29 for landing zone coordination.
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=='''Medflight'''==
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*Based out of Hanscom Field, Bedford, MA
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*[https://www.bostonmedflight.org/ Boston Medflight]
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*Has bases in the following locations (IATA codes):
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**Hanscom Field, Bedford (BED)
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**Lawrence Municipal Airport (LWM)
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**Mansfield Municipal Airport (1B9)
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**Plymouth Airport (PYM)
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**Portsmouth NH IAP (PSM)
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{{prettytable}}
 
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||'''Service'''||'''Frequency'''||'''Type'''||'''Tone'''||'''Use'''||'''Base'''||'''Confirmation/ReConfirmations'''
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!'''Frequency'''
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!'''Type'''
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!'''Tone'''
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!'''Use'''
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!'''Location'''
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!'''Confirmation/Reconfirmation'''
 
|-align="center"
 
|-align="center"
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|Boston Medflight||460.8000||S||107.2||Boston - Simplex Ops||Boston||2019.02.13 W1KNE
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|461.4500||S||107.2||Medflight Primary Operations||Boston||2025.01.03 ecps92
 
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|Boston Medflight||461.4500||S||107.2||Medflight direct to Hospital||Boston||2019.02.13 W1KNE
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|130.5750||S||AM||Medflight Ops VHF||Boston||2024.10 [https://aeronav.faa.gov/visual/09-05-2024/PDFs/Boston_Heli.pdf FAA Document]
 
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|Boston Medflight||461.4500||R||?||Multiple Sites||Eastern Mass||
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|460.8000||S||107.2||Boston - Simplex Ops||Boston||2019.02.13 W1KNE
 
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|Boston Medflight||460.8000||R||114.8||Boston||Bases at Hanscom AFB (Bedford, MA)<br>Lawrence Municipal Airport (North Andover, MA)<br>Mansfield Municipal Airport (Mansfield, MA)<br>Plymouth Municipal Airport (Plymouth/Carver, MA)||
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|461.4500||R||?||Multiple Sites||Eastern Mass||
 
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|Boston Medflight||460.8000||R||103.5||Bedford|| ||
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|460.8000||R||114.8||Boston||All Bases||
 
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|Boston Medflight||460.8000||R||127.3||Plymouth|| ||
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|460.8000||R||103.5||Bedford|| ||
 
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|Boston Medflight||[[Industrial_Communications_and_Electronics_MotoTrbo_Systems|ICE TRS]]||T||[[Industrial_Communications_and_Electronics_MotoTrbo_Systems#Network_134_Talkgroups|TG:22]]||Ground and Aircraft Transports||Bedford Dispatch||2016.02.23
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|460.8000||R||127.3||Plymouth|| ||
 
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|Lifeflight of Maine||451.7750||R||203.5||Lifeflight 4 - MEDCOM Sanford Repeater|| ||2019.08.30 LTE4NFD
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|[[Industrial_Communications_and_Electronics_Trunk|ICE TRS]]||T||[[Industrial_Communications_and_Electronics_MotoTrbo_Systems#Network_134_Talkgroups|TG:22]]||Ground and Aircraft Transports||Bedford Dispatch||See ICE TRS trunk for confirmation.
 
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|Lifeflight of Maine||453.6500||S||103.5||Talkaround (w/bases)||Bases at Eastern Maine Medical Center (Bangor, ME)<BR> Central Maine Medical Center (Lewiston, ME)<br>Sanford Seacoast Regional Airport (Sanford, ME)||
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|[[Industrial_Communications_and_Electronics_Trunk|ICE TRS]]||T||[[Industrial_Communications_and_Electronics_MotoTrbo_Systems#Network_134_Talkgroups|TG:390]]||Ground and Aircraft Transports||Bedford Dispatch||See ICE TRS trunk for confirmation
 
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|Lifeflight of Maine||453.6500||R||103.5||Mt. Washington NH|| ||2018.07.08 ecps92
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|[[Industrial_Communications_and_Electronics_Trunk|ICE TRS]]||T||[[Industrial_Communications_and_Electronics_MotoTrbo_Systems#Network_134_Talkgroups|TG:391]]||Ground and Aircraft Transports||Bedford Dispatch||See ICE TRS trunk for confirmation
 
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|Lifeflight of Maine||453.6500||R||103.5||Chase Mtn. Hersey ME|| ||
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|[[Industrial_Communications_and_Electronics_Trunk|ICE TRS]]||T||[[Industrial_Communications_and_Electronics_MotoTrbo_Systems#Network_134_Talkgroups|TG:392]]||Ground and Aircraft Transports||Bedford Dispatch||See ICE TRS trunk for confirmation
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|}
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=='''LifeFlight of Maine'''==
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*Life-Flight of Maine helicopters are based in Bangor, Lewiston and Sanford and are remotely dispatched by MEDCOMM from Bangor.
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*Landing zone coordination with local agencies often takes place on Maine State Fire (154.3100).
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*A statewide UHF repeater system is used for flight-following.
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*The Boston Med-Flight system (461.4500) is also used during flights to Boston.
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{| class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed wikitable"
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|-
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!Transmitter Locations -
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|-
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|Mount Washington, NH
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|Chase Mountain
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|Sugarloaf Mountain
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|Cooper Mountain
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|Bald Mountain
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|Pickard Mountain
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|Blackstrap Hill
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|Northern Maine Med Center, Fort Kent
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|Streaked Mountain
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|Fish Hill
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|Quaker Hill
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|Mount Hope
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|}
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{{prettytable}}
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|-align="center" style="background:silver;"
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!'''Frequency'''
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!'''Type'''
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!'''Tone'''
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!'''Use'''
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!'''Location'''
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!'''Confirmation/Reconfirmation'''
 
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|Lifeflight of Maine||453.6500||R||103.5||Sugarloaf Mtn. Carrabassett ME|| ||
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|453.6500||R||103.5||Primary Operations||Multi||2023.09.26 MASSBUSMARK
 
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|Lifeflight of Maine||453.6500||R||103.5||Cooper Mtn. Cooper ME||Inactive?||
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|451.7750||D||203.5||Lifeflight 4 - MEDCOMM base <br>Change to 453.6500 when airborne||Sanford||2024.10.06 GraniteScanner
 
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|Lifeflight of Maine||453.6500||R||103.5||Bald Mtn. Dedham ME||Inactive?||
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|456.7750||D||203.5||Lifeflight 4 - MEDCOMM crew/helo response <br>Change to 453.6500 when airborne||Sanford||2025.05.01 schwab
 
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|Lifeflight of Maine||453.6500||R||103.5||Pickard Mtn. Dixmont ME||Inactive?||
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|151.5500||R||D114||VHF Repeater||Dixmont||2019.08.30 LTE4NFD
 
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|Lifeflight of Maine||453.6500||R||103.5||Blackstrap Hill Falmouth ME||Inactive?||
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|}
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=='''Lifestar'''==
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*Based out of Hartford Hospital.
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**Aircraft based at:
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**Lifestar 1, Midstate Hospital, Meriden
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**Lifestar 2, Backus Hospital, Norwich
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**Lifestar 3, Barnes Municipal Airport, Westfield, MA. (BAF)
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{{prettytable}}
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|-align="center" style="background:silver;"
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!'''Frequency'''
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!'''Type'''
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!'''Tone'''
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!'''Use'''
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!'''Location'''
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!'''Confirmation/Reconfirmation'''
 
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|Lifeflight of Maine||453.6500||R||103.5||N. Maine Med. Center Fort Kent|| ||
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|155.3850||S||82.5||||Hartford Hospital program||2025.08.27 cg
 
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|Lifeflight of Maine||453.6500||R||103.5||Streaked Mtn. Hebron ME||Inactive?||
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|452.3375||R||D351||Meriden||Lifestar 1||2018.07.30 CG
 
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|Lifeflight of Maine||453.6500||R||103.5||Fish Hill Lincoln ME||Inactive?||
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|461.3875||R||141.3||Hartford & Norwich UHF||Lifestar 2||2025.08.27 cg
 
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|Lifeflight of Maine||453.6500||R||103.5||Quaker Hill Sidney ME||Inactive?||
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|461.3875||R||D351||Westfield||Lifestar 3||2022.04.17 W1KNE
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|}
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=='''SkyHealth'''==
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*SkyHealth 2 is based out of Yale New Haven Hospital
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*Also stationed at North Shore University Hospital, Manhasset, NY
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{{prettytable}}
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|-align="center" style="background:silver;"
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!'''Frequency'''
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!'''Type'''
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!'''Tone'''
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!'''Use'''
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!'''Location'''
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!'''Confirmation/Reconfirmation'''
 
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|Lifeflight of Maine||453.6500||R||103.5||Mt. Hope Sanford ME||||2017.07.09 LTE4NFD
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|[[OneVoice|OneVoice TRS]]||T||TG: 301005||Inter-Hospital Transfers ||New Haven, CT & Manhasset, NY||See [[OneVoice#One_Voice_Talkgroups|OneVoice]] for confirmations
 
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|Lifeflight of Maine||151.5500||R||D114||Dixmoont Repeater|| ||2019.08.30 LTE4NFD
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|155.2050||S||67.0||patch to TRS||New Haven ||2023.07.31 cg
 
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|Lifestar||155.3850||S||82.5||||Hartford Hospital program||2019.03.30 W1KNE
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|}
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=='''LifeFlight'''==
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*Based out of UMass Memorial Medical Center, Worcester
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*UMass also provides EMS for the City of Worcester and the Town of Shrewsbury
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{{prettytable}}
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|-align="center" style="background:silver;"
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!'''Frequency'''
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!'''Type'''
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!'''Tone'''
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!'''Use'''
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!'''Location'''
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!'''Confirmation/Reconfirmation'''
 
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|Lifestar||452.3375||R||D351||Meriden||Lifestar 1, Midstate Hospital Helipad, Meriden, CT||2018.07.30 CG
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|155.1600||S||D411||||UMASS University campus (Worcester, MA)||2025.06.27 MASSBUSMARK
 
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|Lifestar||461.3875||R||141.3||Hartford & Norwich UHF||Lifestar 2, Backus Hosp Helipad, Norwich, CT||2017.01.31
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|MSP 800||T||TG:10096||Worcester EMS Wide Area||Used as a backup to 155.1600||See [[Massachusetts_State_Police#Regional_Nets|MSP Talkgroups]] for Confirmations
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|}
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=='''Dartmouth Hitchcock Advanced Response Team (D-HART)'''==
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*Based out of Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH
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**Also stationed in Manchester, NH
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{{prettytable}}
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|-align="center" style="background:silver;"
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!'''Frequency'''
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!'''Type'''
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!'''Tone'''
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!'''Use'''
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!'''Location'''
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!'''Confirmation/Reconfirmation'''
 
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|Lifestar||461.3875||R||D351||Westfield||Lifestar 3, Westfield MA||2018.12.29 cg
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|155.3250||S||141.3||Based at Lebanon NH (Primary Ops)||Lebanon NH||2025.08.27 cg
 
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|SkyHealth||[[OneVoice|OneVoice TRS]]||T||TG: 301005||Inter-Hospital Transfers ||Yale-New Haven Health (New Haven CT) &<br>North Shore University Hospital (Manhasset, NY)||2015.10.15
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|461.2250||R||146.2||Based at Burlington VT||Stowe VT||2024.08.15 jeffkett
 
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|UMASS Memorial Lifeflight||155.1600|| S||118.8||||UMASS University campus (Worcester, MA)||2019.03.31 W1KNE
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|464.4500||R||D703||Based at Manchester NH||Goffstown NH||2024.11.27 MASSBUSMARK
 
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|Dartmouth Hitchcock Advanced Response Team - DHART||155.3250||S||141.3||Lebanon NH||Based at Lebanon, NH||
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|Dartmouth Hitchcock Advanced Response Team - DHART||464.4500||R||D703||Goffstown NH||Based at Manchester NH||2019.02.17 ecps92
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=='''LifeNet 7-1'''==
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*Based at South Albany Airport, Ravena, NY (4B0)
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*Formerly known as Albany MedFlight
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{{prettytable}}
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!'''Frequency'''
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!'''Type'''
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!'''Tone'''
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!'''Use'''
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!'''Location'''
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!'''Confirmation/Reconfirmation'''
 
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||Albany Medflight (Lifenet 71)||155.2350||S||D432||Air-Grnd||Covers Western Mass and Vermont||2012.03.07
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|155.2350||S||D432||Air-Grnd||Covers Western Mass and Vermont||2025.08.27 cg
 
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|}
 
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Latest revision as of 20:37, 27 August 2025

For Lifeflight of Maine and Boston Medflight, you may hear the helicopters on the "air to ground" frequency even if you can't hear the repeater.

Table of contents -
  • The Northeast Air Alliance has adopted the use of VTAC11, UTAC41D or 8TAC91D for landing zone coordination vs coming up on individual agency frequencies when coordinating landing zones in Massachusetts. (May 2022)
  • The New Hampshire Department of Public Safety has adopted the use of VMED29 for landing zone coordination.

Medflight

  • Based out of Hanscom Field, Bedford, MA
  • Boston Medflight
  • Has bases in the following locations (IATA codes):
    • Hanscom Field, Bedford (BED)
    • Lawrence Municipal Airport (LWM)
    • Mansfield Municipal Airport (1B9)
    • Plymouth Airport (PYM)
    • Portsmouth NH IAP (PSM)


Frequency Type Tone Use Location Confirmation/Reconfirmation
461.4500 S 107.2 Medflight Primary Operations Boston 2025.01.03 ecps92
130.5750 S AM Medflight Ops VHF Boston 2024.10 FAA Document
460.8000 S 107.2 Boston - Simplex Ops Boston 2019.02.13 W1KNE
461.4500 R ? Multiple Sites Eastern Mass
460.8000 R 114.8 Boston All Bases
460.8000 R 103.5 Bedford
460.8000 R 127.3 Plymouth
ICE TRS T TG:22 Ground and Aircraft Transports Bedford Dispatch See ICE TRS trunk for confirmation.
ICE TRS T TG:390 Ground and Aircraft Transports Bedford Dispatch See ICE TRS trunk for confirmation
ICE TRS T TG:391 Ground and Aircraft Transports Bedford Dispatch See ICE TRS trunk for confirmation
ICE TRS T TG:392 Ground and Aircraft Transports Bedford Dispatch See ICE TRS trunk for confirmation

LifeFlight of Maine

  • Life-Flight of Maine helicopters are based in Bangor, Lewiston and Sanford and are remotely dispatched by MEDCOMM from Bangor.
  • Landing zone coordination with local agencies often takes place on Maine State Fire (154.3100).
  • A statewide UHF repeater system is used for flight-following.
  • The Boston Med-Flight system (461.4500) is also used during flights to Boston.
Transmitter Locations -
Mount Washington, NH
Chase Mountain
Sugarloaf Mountain
Cooper Mountain
Bald Mountain
Pickard Mountain
Blackstrap Hill
Northern Maine Med Center, Fort Kent
Streaked Mountain
Fish Hill
Quaker Hill
Mount Hope
Frequency Type Tone Use Location Confirmation/Reconfirmation
453.6500 R 103.5 Primary Operations Multi 2023.09.26 MASSBUSMARK
451.7750 D 203.5 Lifeflight 4 - MEDCOMM base
Change to 453.6500 when airborne		 Sanford 2024.10.06 GraniteScanner
456.7750 D 203.5 Lifeflight 4 - MEDCOMM crew/helo response
Change to 453.6500 when airborne		 Sanford 2025.05.01 schwab
151.5500 R D114 VHF Repeater Dixmont 2019.08.30 LTE4NFD

Lifestar

  • Based out of Hartford Hospital.
    • Aircraft based at:
    • Lifestar 1, Midstate Hospital, Meriden
    • Lifestar 2, Backus Hospital, Norwich
    • Lifestar 3, Barnes Municipal Airport, Westfield, MA. (BAF)
Frequency Type Tone Use Location Confirmation/Reconfirmation
155.3850 S 82.5 Hartford Hospital program 2025.08.27 cg
452.3375 R D351 Meriden Lifestar 1 2018.07.30 CG
461.3875 R 141.3 Hartford & Norwich UHF Lifestar 2 2025.08.27 cg
461.3875 R D351 Westfield Lifestar 3 2022.04.17 W1KNE

SkyHealth

  • SkyHealth 2 is based out of Yale New Haven Hospital
  • Also stationed at North Shore University Hospital, Manhasset, NY
Frequency Type Tone Use Location Confirmation/Reconfirmation
OneVoice TRS T TG: 301005 Inter-Hospital Transfers New Haven, CT & Manhasset, NY See OneVoice for confirmations
155.2050 S 67.0 patch to TRS New Haven 2023.07.31 cg

LifeFlight

  • Based out of UMass Memorial Medical Center, Worcester
  • UMass also provides EMS for the City of Worcester and the Town of Shrewsbury
Frequency Type Tone Use Location Confirmation/Reconfirmation
155.1600 S D411 UMASS University campus (Worcester, MA) 2025.06.27 MASSBUSMARK
MSP 800 T TG:10096 Worcester EMS Wide Area Used as a backup to 155.1600 See MSP Talkgroups for Confirmations

Dartmouth Hitchcock Advanced Response Team (D-HART)

  • Based out of Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH
    • Also stationed in Manchester, NH
Frequency Type Tone Use Location Confirmation/Reconfirmation
155.3250 S 141.3 Based at Lebanon NH (Primary Ops) Lebanon NH 2025.08.27 cg
461.2250 R 146.2 Based at Burlington VT Stowe VT 2024.08.15 jeffkett
464.4500 R D703 Based at Manchester NH Goffstown NH 2024.11.27 MASSBUSMARK

LifeNet 7-1

  • Based at South Albany Airport, Ravena, NY (4B0)
  • Formerly known as Albany MedFlight
Frequency Type Tone Use Location Confirmation/Reconfirmation
155.2350 S D432 Air-Grnd Covers Western Mass and Vermont 2025.08.27 cg
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