Re: Radio Signals


Message posted by Joerg (Webmaster) on May 15, 2011 at 14:20:40 PST:

Good question. There are several communication systems in use at Area 51:

Security and other mobile ground units use a trunked and digitally encrypted radio system that can not be monitored with commercial scanners.

For communications with civilian aircraft and with the Janets, two frequencies in the VHF air band are used ("Control" and "Tower"). There are also a number of VHF and UHF Dreamland MOA frequencies, most of which are in our scanner frequencies section. All of these can be monirored with a mil. air capable scanner.

There also appears to be a trunked UHF air system, similar to Have Quick used for flight tests. Even Red Flag usues Have Quick now for much of the blue forces communications. I don't know of a scanner capable of monitoring Have Quick systems.

Digital signals go via microwave link from Bald Mtn and Cedar Peak to Mt Irish and Highland Peak.

There are plans to run power lines via through Tikaboo Valley to the GL Rd Guard shack and into the base. The real reason for the new lines are so-called fiber-optic ground wires. The ground wire of the power lines has a fiber-optic core, which allows secure high-speed data transfer.

And then there is the good old telephone, which as far as I know is still used to communicate with law enforcement etc.


In Reply to: Radio Signals posted by DreamlandDreamer on May 15, 2011 at 13:58:05 PST:

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