Civil Air Patrol
UNITED STATES AIR FORCE

 

CAP channels above 26 MHz
VHF/UHF radio channels & uses
NATIONWIDE C.A.P. CHANNELS:

 

AM  026.6000  Search and Rescue Mobile-to-Mobile
AM  026.6100  Search and Rescue Portables
AM  026.6200  Search and Rescue "Alpha two-six"
FM  038.5000  Aircraft Operations "FM-38"*
FM  041.7000  Aircraft Operations "FM-41"*
AM  119.3500  Aircraft Calling Channel
AM  120.8500  Search and Rescue Intersystem
AM  121.5000  AIRCRAFT EMERGENCY CHANNEL (V.H.F.)
AM  121.6000  Practice Emergency Beacon (ELT-2)
AM  121.7750  Practice Emergency Beacon (ELT-1)
AM  122.0000  Flight Watch Nationwide Channel
AM  122.7000  Glider Operations "Air Boss"
AM  122.8000  Glider Operations "Air Boss"
AM  122.9000  Link to Government Aircraft
AM  123.1000  Search and Rescue
AM  123.4500  Aircraft Calling Channel
FM  143.7750  Search and Rescue "VHF-775"
FM  143.9500  Search and Rescue "VHF-950"
FM  148.1250  Repeater OUTPUT (CAP chennel 2) SECONDARY OPERATIONS CH.
FM  148.1375  Simplex (CAP channel 3)
FM  148.1500  Repeater OUTPUT (CAP channel 1) MAIN OPERATIONS CHANNEL
FM  148.5375  Search and Rescue (Mostly Aircraft)
FM  148.9750  Search and Rescue
FM  149.5375  Search and Rescue ("High-Bird")
FM  149.9000  Primary Packet Channel
FM  149.9250  Secondary Packet Channel*
FM  163.1250  Flight Line Operations*
FM  163.1500  Flight Line Operations*
AM  243.0000  AIRCRAFT EMERGENCY CHANNEL (U.H.F.)
FM  419.6375  Urban Search and Rescue
FM  419.6875  CAP Urban Point-to-Point
FM  419.9875  Low-power Point-to-Point*

 

NOTES

 

1) A Star (*) indicates that that frequency is not
active in all states, or may be shared with another
NTIA Government-band user.

 

2) Most CAP units are equipped with radios that can
operate on frequencies outside the government bands.
For example: a CAP aircraft may have a CAP radio, a
137-174 MHz VHF-FM radio (used to talk to other
SAR agencies) and a VHF-AM radio.  The VHF-AM radio
would cover 118-137 MHz, this way the aircraft can
talk to other aircraft that only have standard VHF-AM
aircraft band radios (usually on the 120.85, 122.90,
and 123.10 MHz search and rescue frequencies.)

 

3) Most CAP vans and trucks have radios that operate
in the 143, 148, 149 and 163 MHz segments only, so these
are by far the most active of the channels.

 

4) CAP and NTIA have just begun installing the new
26 MHz AM radio gear in CAP vans, so right now, there
is very little activity on those channels, as well
as the 419 MHz channels.

Information Courtesy of Eugene Sperry