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F-16 Jets Launched to Patrol in the East as a Precaution

By Bradley Graham and John Mintz
Washington Post Staff Writers
Friday, August 15, 2003; Page A11

In the first minutes after yesterday's power blackout, the Pentagon
launched two Air Force F-16 fighter jets to patrol skies between New
York and Washington, and put other military aircraft on alert at
eastern U.S. bases, defense officials said.
.....

"NORAD has no reason to believe there's an imminent airborne threat,"
a defense official said. But, he added, the decision was made to send
the extra fighters aloft and put others on alert "as a precautionary
measure." The planes took off from Andrews Air Force Base.
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Maybe some people have a scanner loaded with mil-air
stuff like me?

NJ DXer wrote:
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And to add to my last post, if your really from New Jersey (as suggested
by your email address) you would have been able to hear the F-16's which
were mentioned. If you would have tuned in the frequencies found at
http://www.milaircomms.com/uhf_cap.html you too would have been able to
tune into the action.....

George
http://www.MilAirComms.com

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were mentioned. If you would have tuned in the frequencies found at
http://www.milaircomms.com/uhf_cap.html you too would have been able to
tune into the action.....

No I couldn't. I can use software to force my Pro-95 to recieve military air
band frequencies , but it isn't meant to recieve them and if it does, it
does so poorly.

Nice plug though.