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- GOODYEAR BLIMP FREQUENCIES --------------------------
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- By John (Topol) Johnson KWV8BP
- Source: Monitoring Times
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- Here are a few frequencies you might want to monitor if you ever see one
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- of the Goodyear Blimps fly overhead. A couple quick notes first, there are
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- three Blimps in operation in North America a fourth is operated in Europe.
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- The American blimps are stationed at three locations, one on each coast
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- and one in-between. The Enterprise, tail number N1A, is based in Pompano
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- Beach, Florida: the America, tail number N3A, is based near Houston, Texas
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- and the Columbia, tail number N4A, is based in Los Angeles.
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- Each blimp is accompanied by a three vehicle ground fleet consisting of a
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- van, a tractor-trailer, and a Greyhound-like bus.
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- The communications between the blimp and ground crew are normally held on
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- 151.625 Mhz. The blimp also uses VHF aircraft band, communications can be
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- monitored here at 132.00 Mhz. AM. Below is a list of other frequencies used
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- by the blimp.
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- 123.050 Common Blimp port frequency
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- 123.250 Suffield (Ohio) Wingfoot Lake Facility
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- 132.000 Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company channel
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- 151.625 Blimp Operations NBFM
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- 465.9125 Blimp Operations NBFM - Low Power
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- 465.9375 Blimp Operations NBFM - Low Power
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- 465.9625 Blimp Operations NBFM - Low Power
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- For more information concerning the blimp or its operations, see the
- August 89 issue of Monitoring Times.