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Old 19th May 2019, 12:02
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Originally Posted by SMT Member
Let's remind ourselves, that historically only 2 nations have shot down commercial airliners in peace time. One of them has now issued a warning, it seems quite clear where that potential danger would come from. And it's not Iran.
I see you point, but I was surprised to see how many airliners that have been shot down when I did a Google search.

243 Mhz is the UHF Guard frequency. Airlines don’t normally carry UHF equipment.
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