Westfield Air Show May 13-14, 2023

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Westfield Air Show May 13-14, 2023

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No performers announced so far.
https://www.westfieldairshow.org/
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Re: Westfield Air Show May 13-14, 2023

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The THUNDERBIRDS are not doing any shows that weekend.
The BLUE ANGELS are performing in Illinois that weekend.
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Re: Westfield Air Show May 13-14, 2023

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The traffic nightmare is under way. Mass pike backed up about a mile or so. Rt 10 backed up a couple miles

KBAF is airport callsign
http://www.airnav.com/airport/KBAF
Live ATC
https://www.liveatc.net/search/?icao=kbaf
unknown if the Air Boss frq is in the livestream

120.525 Air Boss
CoMIRS in extensive use, EVENT, SOPS, and LOCPS channels active. If you have the digital that might be preferred.
Barnes military LMR is all encrypted
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Re: Westfield Air Show May 13-14, 2023

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Sadly, as you say the Base LMR is 100% ENC, from spending 4 hrs on Friday, found plenty of LMR 137-144/148-150.8 and 162-174 and it was all ENC
even at 11:30 when the Air Boss activated a Simulated Crash in the "Box" - all ENCV, except for the ComIRS channels.

Looked like DFS has 3 vehicles working, two outside the base gates and likely the other on base.

First time there, and now that I know the Observation Deck is awesome, might bring some power cords and do a complete set-up, might help
those folks with Cameras and (counted) over 75 scannners running :)

Guess I missed you Chris, as I left around 1p for the ride back thru traffic to Boston
CG wrote: 13 May 2023 09:39 The traffic nightmare is under way. Mass pike backed up about a mile or so. Rt 10 backed up a couple miles

KBAF is airport callsign
http://www.airnav.com/airport/KBAF
Live ATC
https://www.liveatc.net/search/?icao=kbaf
unknown if the Air Boss frq is in the livestream

120.525 Air Boss
CoMIRS in extensive use, EVENT, SOPS, and LOCPS channels active. If you have the digital that might be preferred.
Barnes military LMR is all encrypted
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Re: Westfield Air Show May 13-14, 2023

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Golden Knights open the show
from Fridays demo's caught

a. Knights
b. Demo guy flying circles around the Knights as they came in
c Barnes F15's (Wicked - callsign) flight of 4
d. USCG practive for what may have been a C130 Cargo dump

Word was the F35's would fly in the afternoon
murphcc1 wrote: 01 Dec 2022 08:38 The THUNDERBIRDS are not doing any shows that weekend.
The BLUE ANGELS are performing in Illinois that weekend.
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http://scanmaritime.com

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