New England Milcom
Welcome to the Scan Cape Cod Military Wiki. Here you will find numerous links regarding monitoring the military in the New England area.
What do you need to get started? 2 pages at RadioReference.Com will help answer that question:
- Milcom Receiving Equipment
- This page details numerous scanners, receivers, antennas, filters and more. Be sure to read the various linked reviews from EHam and Strong Signals to make an informed choice.
- Scanner Antennas
- A more detailed look at Scanner antennas of many types - including some homebrewed designs And don't forget about the coax
Related Links
- Defense Internet NOTAM Service
- FAA Temporary Flight Restrictions Look for ZBW in the facility column
- Monitoring Military Flight Demonstration Groups 2007 (per MT-PDF File)
- NTIA Frequency Allocations
- Special Use and ATC Assigned Airspace
- World Aeronautical Data website
- Callsign Lists
- Callsigns used by the Military via the MilAirComms website
- Military Callsign List
- The Guide's Internet Callsign List
- Glossaries
Frequencies
And now to the most important part... Unfortunately many pages that used to hold frequencies disappeared after 9/11. With the exception of the Mass.Military page, Ike's Scanner Page was used as a starting source; however, much of the data presented there is very old and of questionable value. If you have more up to date information, please consider registering with this site and contribute!
Unless otherwise stated, all frequencies are in the AM mode.
The frequencies in the range between 380 and 399.9 mhz are slowly being converted over to a mix of APCO25 9600 baud digital systems, Aeronautical operations and other modes. This is happening at all military and federal installations nationwide. Currently only the Uniden BCD396T handheld, and the BCD996T base/mobile scanners are capable of tracking these systems. Other digital trunktrackers may listen to these frequencies in a conventional mode, but will not track them. The Pro-96 and Pro-2096 may listen on these frequencies conventionally, and use the PRO96Com utility to read their control channel when the system is utilizing a 9600 baud control channel. When fully implemented, these systems will utilize encryption, and will become untrackable on any scanner, past or future.
NOTE: The PRO96Com utility is now available from the Pro96Com Yahoo Group
Be sure to always keep 255.400 in your scanner - this is the Nationwide Flight Service Station frequency. Often flights will call in using this frequency looking for weather or other related information.
