AIR FORCE ONE

Photos and Freqs of Airforce One/SecretService of Presidential visit to Daytona Beach

Communications between Airforce One and ARTCC (Jacksonville in this case), Daytona Approach were all in the clear and on standard VHF Civil Air frequncies. The UHF MilAir frequencies were NOT used. One interesting note, Daytona Approach did not hand off Airforce One to the tower, approach worked him clear down to landing.

Something very interesting I noticed about the Black Chevy (see picturebelow) which had many different antennas on it. This vehicle is know as The War Wagon. The War Wagon was two cars behind the President in the motorcade. On the back bumper there were two (one on each corner) long (maybe 102") whip antennas. At the bottom of one there was a large box or possibly a loading coil. Appears this is a low frequency antenna of some kind.

Secret radio frequencies

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Air Force One

Many of the in-flight phone calls from Air Force One arenot scrambled and can be picked up by anyone with a shortwave
radio. You just have to watch the newspapers for informationon the presidents travels and listen to the right frequencies
shortly before landing or after takeoff at Andrews Air Force Base (when calls are less likely to be scrambled
electronically). A presidential phone call is usually prefaced by a request for "Crown", the White House
communications center.
Air Force One uses several frequencies including those assigned to Andrews Air Force Base. Transmissions are on
single, usually upper, sideband. These transmissions are usually secret, but the frequency numbers have long since
leaked out or have been discovered independently. It is suspected that wire services and TV news operations monitor
them for leads. The reported frequencies (in kilohertz) are:

6731 6756 8967 9018 11180 13201
13215 13247 15048 18027

In addition, 162.685 MHz and 171.235 MHz are secret service frequencies used for Air Force One communications. The White
House staff uses 162.850 MHz and 167.825 MHz. Secret Service channel "Oscar", 164.885 MHz, is used for the Presidents
limousine. Air Force Two uses the same Frequencies as Air Force One.
Although everyone concerned must know that outsiders may be eavesdropping, conversations are often surprisingly
candid. (shortwave listeners heard the White House staff urging Air Force Two back to Washington after the 1981
attempt on President Regan's life, complete with reports that then-secretary of state Alexander Haig was confusing
everybody with his claim of being "in control.") No law seems to forbid such eavesdropping. Ironically, it is illegal
(section 605 of the communications act of 1934) to reveal intercepted conversations to anyone else - that being regarded
as the wireless equivalent to wiretapping. Even so, The New York Times has run snippets of Air Force One conversations.

Secret Service Frequencies

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