Must be all 'hush hush' military stuff then. I always thought that 'Guard ' was just another 'Americanism' that had crept into our civil usage. Thought it was the 'chatter' frequency at one stage, like 'The Numbers'.
We only needed to monitor three frquencies, - the current VHF being worked, monitoring 121.5 if anyone was in trouble or if a beacon (ship or aircraft) was going off, and the current H.F., although the bigger aircraft had Selcal so that helped keep the traffic down on H.F. It was only later on domestic flights that people rabbiting on with trivia on Company or 123.45 got to be wearing for this guy.
Last edited by frigatebird; 2nd Feb 2010 at 05:05.
Reason: traffic for chatter