Highway Patrol Car callsign

[Longreach]

given there patched to channel W and channel W starts south or bargo i'd seriously doubt you'd hear jack. you'd have more luck on the air bands. that area is covered by channel I.
as stated earlier the aerial patrol around marulan is only on doing checks for 60min before it has to head back to bankstown.

[David C]

124.1 is the area airband freq in the Mittagong area . It must be said that because the aircraft is flying outside of controlled airspace ( known as OCTA ) , there is no requirement for any radio calls to be made on the allocated airband frequencies , so you probably won't hear a thing !! .. The best opportunity is to monitor Bankstown Tower on 132.8 as the aircraft is required to make transmissions when approaching and departing that area ..

Dave C

[matthewn1983]

Just noticed this on my twitter feed. Might keep an ear out on those air freq, see what comes up over the next few days

Police will saturate roads from Sydney’s South-West to Goulburn in a 48-hour pre-Easter road safety blitz.

Dozens of Highway Patrol cars, motorcycles, covert units, Random Breath Test and Drug testing trucks and the Aerial Speed Enforcement plane will be deployed during the operation which starts at midnight tonight....

http://cumberland-courier.whereilive.co ... um=twitter

[citabria]

124.1 is the area airband freq in the Mittagong area . It must be said that because the aircraft is flying outside of controlled airspace ( known as OCTA ) , there is no requirement for any radio calls to be made on the allocated airband frequencies , so you probably won't hear a thing !!

You're quite correct there - I flew from Camden to Bowral and back last Saturday and didn't make a single call since I didn't have to. The joys of being VFR

Cheers,
Matt

[jaskel]

yeah we did a Victor 1 run and i think we made 2 calls in total (excluding dep and app) so yeah pretty quiet.

[jaskel]

POL AIR 6 is up in the sky right no over Marulan, they are tracking some motorbikes and talking on channel W to cars on the ground!

They are about to head to Goulburn Airport for a break..I wonder if they will head to the M4 today..ill see em if they do

[matthewn1983]

Thaught of one thing for the Aerial Patrol Zone at Douglass Park on the Hume Highway, not far south of that zone is the Sydney Skydiving Center with its own air strip, wonder what sort of communication between the police and the skydiving center is setup. Maybe they liase with them somehow? Didnt hear much for the Operation this weekend up here, obviously as Channel India is encrypted, but nothing on airband from what i could hear anyway, no reports of planes being sited either.

[citabria]

Probably nothing is setup - Wilton is an ALA, not a registered airstrip. There is a frequency used for the dropzone, but its not official and its only used for the drop airplane to the office to communicate. When I did my formation flying rating, we flicked over to the channel to let them know we were doing formation in the DZ - but since formation flying is so intense I didn't pay attention to the frequency.

The skydiving aircraft is way up in controlled airspace - the Police aircraft isn't. So theres no reason for them to communicate...

[jaskel]

they did runs on hume at Marulan and also Douglass Park/Menangle all weekend! I bet they wil be out in force next weekend too with Double points

[aircadet]

122.9mhz is the wilton DZ freq.. you will also hear Polair 6 on 124.550mhz or 125.800mhz advising the drop aircraft of intentions..