08 October 2007

USS Hawes, FFG 53 Trunked Repeater System

As reported by the Savannah Morning News and several TG stations last week, the USS Hawes, FFG 53 has been visiting Savannah during the Octoberfest weekend. After working the weekend, I took advantage of the holiday today to visit River Street and get a look at the ship (which unfornately is all you can do now, they no longer offer public tours when ships visit Savannah). As always, I had the BC396 with me and did a bit of searching while I was there.




As luck would have it, I came across the 400 MHz shipboard trunked repeater system on the USS Hawes. I doubt that I discovered all of the frequencies for the system because it wasn't very active, but here are the results of my search:

USS Hawes (FFG 53)
Sys ID: 6C35h
Base: 406.0000
Step: 12.5
Offest: 380

408.700 (CC), 407.075, 407.675, 408.650

TG 16
TG 144
TG 1296


Mac McCormick, KF4LMT
kf4lmt@comcast.net