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any new updates for hydro freqs this year I did a search and came up with these from 2004

27.2250 AM CBch22 Little Official Boat 2K
132.0000AM Blimp 2K
156.4000Ch 8 CG Sector North
156.4750Ch 69 Seafair race Officials. Buoy Tendor 2K
156.5000Ch 10 Police Harbor patrol boats(Tu company also)
156.8500Ch 85 Police Harbor patrol
156.9750Rescue
175.1250CH 28A CG 2K
157.1500Ch 23 CG Pat Com 2K
157.1750Ch 83 CG Sector South
457.1375U-1 Miss Budweiser
460.0000U-8 Bill Wuster / Nate Brown
461.6500U-50 ???
461.7125U-6 DeWALT
461.7250U-3 Master Tire
463.6500U-55 ???
463.7125U-6 DeWALT
464.1125WPGD-768
464.1375WPGD-768 APBA Private Channel
464.1625WPGD-768
464.1875WPGD-768
464.4250U-99.9 Bell Fork Lift
464.5000WPGD-768
464.5500WPGD-768 UHRA Officials. Crane 2K
464.7125officials
464.7250U-3 Master Tire
464.7375officials
464.7625officials
464.7875officials
464.8125officials 2K, U100/U98PICO American Dream
464.8375officials 2K
464.8625officials 2K
466.7125U100/U98 PICO American Dream
467.1000U-7 Exide U-14 The Spin Doctor
467.8750U-10 Close Call
468.4750U-10 Close Call
469.2250U-2 Harvey Motorsports
469.5000WPGD-768
469.5250U-1 Miss Budweiser
469.5500WPGD-768
469.5750U-1 Miss Budweiser 2K
469.8375officials 2K
469.9375officials
491.3500U-1 Miss Budweiser
2K meansconfirmed at SeaFair 2000
This list from 98
NUMBER BOAT FREQUENCY
U-1 Miss Budweiser 457.1375
U-1 Miss Budweiser 469.525
U-1 Miss Budweiser 469.575
U-1 Miss Budweiser 491.350
U-2 Harvey Motorsports 469.225
U-3 Master Tire 461.725
U-3 Master Tire 464.725
U-6 DeWALT 463.7125
U-6 DeWALT 461.7125
U-7 Exide 467.100
U-8 Bill Wuster / Nate Brown 460.000
U-10 Close Call 467.875
U-10 Close Call 468.475
U-14 "The Spin Doctor" 467.100
U-19 Easter Seals
U-20 Appian Jeronimo
U-50 ??? 461.650
U-55 ??? 463.650
U-99.9 Bell Fork Lift 464.425
U100/U98 PICO American Dream 464.8125
U100/U98 PICO American Dream 466.7125

UHRA Officials 464.550
APBA Private Channel 464.1375
Rescue 156.975
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Marking this thread as Sticky until Seafair is over.

I don't have any other Hydro freqs to add but, staying with the theme, here is the Blue Angels Freqs from I bvelieve last year.. Feel free to add to this list with any Seafair related stuff.

Blue Angels
237.800 "solos ch-8"
255.200 "circles and arrivals discrete" ch-17
275.350 "diamond" ch-9
284.250 "showbox-Delta Ch-16"
289.800 "aerial refueling"
302.100 "Fat Albert secondary"
305.500 "Fat Albert Primary" Ch-10
346.500 "ground start-rollout-maintenance" Ch-18

Also, as others have pointed out recently, a quick visit to http://www.interceptradio.com/bbs/search.php and a search on Seafair will reveal lots of past posts that are probably still relevant this year.

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Paul
KF7TH

Some info here

http://microvoltradio.com/bluecard.htm

http://www.monitoringtimes.com/mtairshow07.pdf

air show freq's for the angles etc.

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If I had an antenna, I would; but I can only transmit on 160 meters.
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DE K7MHI

Yes, we had a LONG (5+page thread, rare for the board!) discussion on Blue Angel freqs last year. I think we did a pretty good job of flushing them out, I believe. I will be curious to see if anything changed this year. Especially after the accident, if they have changed procedures at all (although I don't think the accident had anything to do with comms).

There are a lot of freqs, but for you newbies, it really boils down to about three most important freqs, and I think cowboymike got them correct above:

237.80 solos
275.35 diamond
284.25 showbox (I think this was the 'common' freq)

The link to our thread last year is here:

viewtopic.php?t=1153&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=seafair&start=45

I spent the evening programming radios and I think I'm ready. I just need to pick my viewing locations now.

Besides last year's info, I found this blog link listing some of this season's known good freqs. Nothing shocking:

http://mt-milcom.blogspot.com/2007/03/2 ... egins.html

Does anybody have more current information on frequencies that are going to be used by the unlimited hydroplanes? The ones listed are obviously old (Miss Budwiser hasn't raced for awhile). I searched the net, but wasn't able to find anything. If all else fails I will was close call. Thanks for any help you can give.

Where is the best viewing points to see the Angels from? I am armed with my scanner and would love to see/hear them at some point this weekend but don't want to go hang "with the crowds" Also how far will those freqs travel? I drive a route fro work and I am between Redmond and North Bothell/Mill Creek areas all day. Would I be able to recieve any comms on my pro-97 or will the distance be to great ? Thank you....

My fave place is the city park above the west end of the I-90 bridge and I will be there Sat. Since they make such lager turns for some of the setups you can see them from all over seattle and the some of the west - east side.

Best listening is to have three or four radios and have each freq sitting of each of the scanners. In scan mode you miss some of the traffic.

Re: Current information - the above is it. I'm sure there will be a few new changes, but for the most part if there was something new it would have been posted. The Seafair archive hase a lot of rich information.

Small boats tenders/rescue use CB and marine
CG mostly on marine VHF
Almost every marine channel is used by someone in that mile by mile - some offical , some not and as the day progresses some drunk.

( I'll finish in the AM)....

So beyond marine VHF

Media is very busy in their VHF freq's and 450 to 451 and 455 to 456.

Itinerant business is also crazy including vendors, officals and boats. Best way here is if you have a scanner that will search 461.0125 to 469.8975 in 25k steps. Most scanners will revert to the 461.0 to 470.0 repeater freq's. Also scan the 800 non law freqs for the same.

There may also be a WBFM signal in the VHF wireless mike range (like 170 to 220) that will be the direction for of the hydro assn's video recording of the event.

Lastly Re: Freqs for Budwiser. I know that they are no longer in the hydro business, but have you noticed that the old Bud driver has won all the races so far - I'll bet that the new team is using the old freq's.

-m

Just heard a quick thing on 163.1 re: not being able to upload

284.25 and 275.35 so far

can confirm 163.1 and i must have been hearing the air side as I am in Port Townsend

today is the set up day - lots of landmarks

add 305.5