air show frequencies

[Wrongway Feldman]

By far the easiest way to monitor Airventure frequencies is the LiveATC http://www.liveatc.net/ smart phone App. and ear buds.
I think the Airshow public address announcer and EAA radio is included with the LiveATC smart phone App.

Below is what I use.
For the Airshow public address announcer audio 96.5 FM and EAA radio 96.5 FM audio I use is a small FM radio.
Both use the same Freq.
For live air traffic communications I use the,
Uniden BC125AT scanner,http://www.uniden.com/scanners/bearc.../invt/bc125atg
The scanner has computer spreadsheet software to plug in frequencies than upload them to the scanner.

I split my head phone left & right input jack, so I can hear live air traffic audio in one ear and EAA radio 96.5 FM & Airshow public address announcer audio in the other ear, at the same time. I use the volume control from ether the FM radio or scanner to balance the audio.
It is kind of cool to hear the air boss talking to the airshow pilot and the Airshow public address announcer at the same time.
Sometimes they patch the airshow pilot into Airshow public address announcer, then I hear the same audio in both the scanner and the FM radio. Wa La Stereo.

Using the handheld scanner I can turn on all banks or just the banks you want to monitor.
Example would be walking around the show grounds during the day, I turn on all banks.
During the air show I turn on just Bank 2 (air show frequencies)
Mass arrival days I turn on Bank 9 (north & south towers frequencies)
North & South tower frequencies are really the main frequencies.
So I dedicated a bank for each.

Remember you can only monitor one frequency at a time.
If you are monitoring multiple frequencies at a time you might hear a response from the tower but miss the reply because the scanner picked up another transmission on another frequency. This is what happens at the Worlds Busiest Airport.
At Airventure, sometimes there is so much Air traffic communications, its better to monitor one or two to frequencies at a time.

That little credit card size Flight Line Radio (I think that's what they call it) didn't work very well for me and has limited audio choices. And the ear buds that come with it didn't fit my ears.

Below is how I loaded the Airventure frequencies into the scanner.
A good thing is to check LiveATC http://www.liveatc.net/search/?icao=kosh for frequencies up dates, a week before Airventure some may have changed. I'm waiting to find out what frequencies the thunder birds are going use.

Bank 1
Reserved for my local airport frequencies

Bank 2
Air Boss ---------------133.8500
Air Show Control -------123.9000
Air Show Control -------128.0000
Air Show Control------- 128.1000
Air Shw Ctrl War ------ 121.4000
Emergency Guard------ 121.5000
Julie Clark------------- 123.1500
Patty Wagstaff --------123.0500
Sean D.Tucker ---------122.9250

Bank 3
AV Arrival ATIS---------125.9000


Bank 4
Seaplane Base---------123.3000
ARINC Orion FBO-------130.5250
Emergency/Guard------121.5000
Flight Watch-----------122.0000
Fond CTAF/UNICOM----123.0500
Green Bay Radio--------122.2500
Green Bay Radio--------122.5000
Oshkosh Clearance-----119.0500
Oshkosh Ground-------121.9000
Pilot Air-to-Air---------122.7500
Rwy18R/36LDepMon---118.9000
Rwy 9/27 Dep Mon-----121.7500
UCOMBaslerOriFBO-----122.9500
Warbird Ground---------123.9000

Bank 5
OshApproach Fisk----- 120.7000

Bank 6
Oshkosh Tower S-------126.6000
Emergency Guard-------121.5000
FlightWatch EFAS-------122.0000
Green Bay Radio--------122.2500
Green Bay Radio--------122.5000
KFLD CTAF/UNICOM-----123.0500
Mil Appr Oshkosh-------127.0000
Orion Flight Ser--------130.5250
Oshkosh Ground--------121.9000
Oshkosh Tower---------118.5000
Oshkosh UNICOM-------122.9500

Bank 7
Oshkosh Tower N-------118.5000

Bank 8
Oshkosh Tower S-------126.6000

Bank 9
KOSH Tower North------118.5000
KOSH Tower South------126.6000

Bank 10
Mil Kosh IFR Arv---------127.0000