Originally Posted by
TheOddOne
Locally, the UHF boys and girls routinely say 'contact Tower channel 2 good-day'.
The boating lot seem to use channel numbers, 16 generally and channel 80 if you want fuel at the marina, for instance. I've no idea what these frequencies are and why would it matter?
TOO
I doubt if they say 'Channel 2' as this would indicate a common (UK wide) frequency.
At RAF airfields home based aircraft are usually equipped with a radio box containing pre-set frequencies for that airfield referred to as 'Studs'.
'Stud 2' is the normal setting on a home based aircraft's radio for that airfield's approach frequency, Stud 1 being that airfield's tower frequency. At another airfield, Stud 1 and Stud 2 will be entirely different frequencies.