| Aircraft communications from over the oceans can be very boring at times or very exciting! | |||||||||||||||
| Along with the use of satellite communications, commercial and military aircraft use | |||||||||||||||
| either the VHF/UHF frequencies when over or near land and switch to | |||||||||||||||
| HF frequencies when over oceans and far beyond line of sight with land based ground stations. | |||||||||||||||
| All of these frequencies are not active all the time, so be patient and tune around, I suggust starting at the 10mHz range then try +/- to 8 or 11 mHz | |||||||||||||||
| The aeronautical voice communications stations and frequencies listed in the tables | |||||||||||||||
| below are available to and utilized by the U.S. FAA Air Route Traffic Control Centers (ARTCCs) for air traffic control purposes. | |||||||||||||||
| The frequencies in use will depend upon the time of day or night and conditions which affect | |||||||||||||||
| radio wave propagation especially on HF frequencies. Voice communications are handled on a single channel | |||||||||||||||
| simplex basis (i.e., with the aircraft and the ground station using the same frequency for transmission and reception) unless otherwise noted in remarks. | |||||||||||||||
| The stations will remain on continuous watch for aircraft within their communication areas, San Francisco and New York Radio | |||||||||||||||
| and when practicable, will transfer this watch to another station when the aircraft reaches the limit of the communications area. | |||||||||||||||
| Stations listed below which are designated "FAA" are operated by the U.S. FAA Flight Service Stations. Stations designated "ARINC" are operated by Aeronautical Radio, Incorporated. | |||||||||||||||
| Upper SSB freq in kHz | Area covered, all areas may have different control stations, on different frequencies | ||||||||||||||
| 2932 | North Pacific Network | San Francisco | |||||||||||||
| 5628 | North Pacific Network | San Francisco | |||||||||||||
| 5667 | North Pacific Network | San Francisco | |||||||||||||
| 6655 | North Pacific Network | San Francisco | |||||||||||||
| 8915 | North Pacific Network | San Francisco | |||||||||||||
| 8951 | North Pacific Network | San Francisco | |||||||||||||
| 10048 | North Pacific Network | San Francisco | |||||||||||||
| 11330 | North Pacific Network | San Francisco | |||||||||||||
| 13273 | North Pacific Network | San Francisco | |||||||||||||
| 13339 | North Pacific Network | San Francisco | |||||||||||||
| 17946 | North Pacific Network | San Francisco | |||||||||||||
| 21925 | North Pacific Network | San Francisco | |||||||||||||
| 3413 | Central East Pacific One Network | San Francisco | Central East Pacific is the frequencies used for aircraft in route Hawaii, there are many and lots of voice activity. | ||||||||||||
| 3452 | Central East Pacific One Network | San Francisco | |||||||||||||
| 5574 | Central East Pacific One Network | San Francisco | |||||||||||||
| 6673 | Central East Pacific One Network | San Francisco | |||||||||||||
| 8843 | Central East Pacific One Network | San Francisco | |||||||||||||
| 10057 | Central East Pacific One Network | San Francisco | IN POCATELLO, a good starting frequency 10,057 | ||||||||||||
| 13354 | Central East Pacific One Network | San Francisco | |||||||||||||
| 2869 | Central East Pacific Two Network | San Francisco | |||||||||||||
| 5547 | Central East Pacific Two Network | San Francisco | |||||||||||||
| 11282 | Central East Pacific Two Network | San Francisco | |||||||||||||
| 13288 | Central East Pacific Two Network | San Francisco | |||||||||||||
| 21964 | Central East Pacific Two Network | San Francisco | |||||||||||||
| 2998 | Central West Pacific Network | San Francisco | |||||||||||||
| 4666 | Central West Pacific Network | San Francisco | |||||||||||||
| 6532 | Central West Pacific Network | San Francisco | |||||||||||||
| 8903 | Central West Pacific Network | San Francisco | |||||||||||||
| 11384 | Central West Pacific Network | San Francisco | |||||||||||||
| 13300 | Central West Pacific Network | San Francisco | |||||||||||||
| 17904 | Central West Pacific Network | San Francisco | |||||||||||||
| 21985 | Central West Pacific Network | San Francisco | |||||||||||||
| 3494 | (LDOC) See note below. | San Francisco | |||||||||||||
| 6640 | (LDOC) See note below. | San Francisco | |||||||||||||
| 11342 | (LDOC) See note below. | San Francisco | |||||||||||||
| 13348 | (LDOC) See note below. | San Francisco | |||||||||||||
| 17925 | (LDOC) See note below. | San Francisco | |||||||||||||
| 21964 | (LDOC) See note below. | San Francisco | |||||||||||||