Two Stations at once....
 

Inspired by the resurrected Southend Frequency thread...

Who else have you heard on shared frequencis?

I've listened to Sywell, from down near White Waltham - (remember that FFF?) and both Popham and CDG from near Bourn. French fishermen used to be regulars on Headcorn's frequency.

Heard Aldergrove radar and Benson Zone together once on 120.9 (?)
High Pressure system over the UK - VHF ducting or whatever it's called.
Pretty nostalgic as I flew from both places in the RAF :uhoh:

Manchester, Heathrow and Luxembourg Tower (118.62 ?) all on the same day - and all near Manchester, not 'in the middle'.

Last summer while flying out of Bourn I could quite often hear De Gaulle Departure, both it and Bourn sharing 124.35 MHz. They couldn't hear me though! :}

ASI

Shanwick Oceanic and Cranfield Approach a few years ago.... :eek:

Liverpool and Manston

Gloucester, Dundee & Battersea all share 122.9MHz

Perth and Teesside (oops Durham Northeast Darlington Yarm ICI Steel River International)

Just about to turn final at Barton thinking that I was the only traffic and heard somebody else calling final!

Turned out to be at Sywell which shares 122.70 with Barton.

Woke me up I can tell you.

I was listening to Sywell in the circuit at Compton Abbas the other day:confused:

Yeovilton and Waddington. A real pain at any level above FL60 as you constantly cross with transmissions at the other end of the country. As they're both LARS units able to work up to FL95 it's about time one of these was changed

(FL65 the other day abeam Yeovilton - with the high pressure I was able to hear an aircraft climbing out of Gamston - weird! :) )

If i remember rightly one of the Aberdeen offshore frequencies could catch traffic going into Schipol. Hope traffic going into Schipol couldn't hear us - a S61 at 110kts would not have been welcome!

A French bloke at Lashenden.

Many years ago, Luton had a radar freq 127.3, so did Cherbourg. During certain atmospheric conditions we could actually get two way contact with them. She sounded very nice!! :D

Clacton and an Amsterdam company frequency usually together!!

East Mids Tower (124.0) and a french freq (Paris FIR??) is often a problem during high pressure

Blackbushe and Peterborough Sibson is always a problem especially with aicraft calling up at FLXXX to check on any drops.

Certainly was today. To start with I thought I must be on the wrong frequency and checked it several times, then I said "Sibson" in front of every single transmission to try to avoid confusion.

Departed Cambridge for Carlisle about 6 weeks ago on an anticyclonic day. Both Cambridge App and Carlisle are on 123.6. It was really weird to hear, while approaching Carlisle, the voices of some pilots at Cambridge that I had been talking to on the ground some 90 mins earlier!

The Sibson - Blackbushe problem or anywhere I expect can be even worse when there are aircraft calling or being called with the same letters in the abreviated call sign. It happened to me recentlly.

Stapleford and Brest Control (or information) in France.

It's been since mid 90's that I haven't flown over Kent but I do remember the overlapping back then.

Stapleford is not in Kent of course; and the D.O.C. of an air to ground frequency is usually limited to a maximum of 10 miles from the station. This means that pilots should not be trying to transmit on the frequency outside this range. By doing so they may be causing all sorts of problems for other units that have been also been allocated the frequency (in different geographical areas) perhaps amongst them Brest Control!

Suspect that some of the instances posted here are based on transmissions outside the D.O.C.s of the airfileds concerned. Also it is entirely possible that the ground equipment at some A/G FISO units is not subject to the same regular testing of performance and levels that ATC units would be, and therefore may be transmitting at a stronger signal than they were licensed for.

Tropospheric Ducting

http://home.cogeco.ca/~dxinfo/tropo_eur.html

Interesting point. And AFAIR there's a maximum altitude for certain ground stations too -- is it 3000 ft for tower/AFIS/AG? (Where is DOC listed, BTW? I can't find anything in the AIP or CAP413.)

So given that places like Sibson drop parachutists from up to FL150, how am I supposed to ask them what their activity status is when I'm flying close by at FL90?

Coming out of Fowlmere yesterday (Saturday), I tuned the radio to North Weald on 123.52, but actually dialled 123.25. It was bit of a surprise to hear someone asking for a taxi, I know North Weald does have some very helpful A/G but they aren't usually that helpful. The penny dropped when the voice continued and asked for a taxi to the Crab & Lobster!

So I've heard Bembridge from up near Fowlmere/Royston

Two for the price of one
 

Don't forget 122.1 RAF common tower frequency. Or 122.2 :-
Sunderland
Tatenhill
Cambridge
Crosland Moor
How did we survive ?
TTH

Extract from UK AIP GEN 3.4.3 (where all the relevant bits can be found).

Unimpressed the other day when landing at a certain aerodrome (not a million miles from Oxford) to hear some bizjet operator saying "Ah - we're still with Paris, estimating you at (27 minutes time). Could you blah, blah, waffle arrange for a car to pick up our passenger, blah, blah...."

10 miles, di ckhead!

Rang their SATCO later to suggest that the pilot was rebriefed NOT to use Tower frequency as a 'Company' frequency.

When listening to the Sovs chatting on their Bear-to-Bear frequency many years ago, we used to get breakthrough from a UK-based flying training aerodrome on occasion....

I heard one or two calls for Peterbourgh Sibson in the Blackbushe circuit on Saturday and I often hear French folk at Lashenden.

During nice flying days nearly always hear someone calling Compton Abbas when I am near (and talking to) Sywell.

Ouch! Actually, I'll have you know we always order taxis when asked. Or, if we're busy, ask The Squadron to do the same. What I do find odd is people who spend several minutes pre-flighting their aircraft, starting the engine, then requesting a taxi to Southend. :confused: