Avon Park is 164 square miles, making it the largest gunnery and bombing range east of the Mississippi River. Located in a remote setting in Central Flroida, it is ideal for black sky night operation. This range is also very active with day time activities.

Missions occuring at Avon Park are easily monitorable from most parts of Florida. From here in Daytona Beach, FL (about 120 miles NorthEast of the center of the range) I can hear most Air-Air mission audio with a simple outdoor non-directional antenna. While this antenna (ScanTenna) is mounted at only 20' it provides for excellent receiption from the Avon Park range.

For those in Central and Southern Florida the Avon Park Range should be an easy target and provide many days of exciting military air communications. While fishing in the Ft. Lauderdale, FL area I was able to listen to F16's out of Homestead AFB targeting many different targest at the range. From Lazer targets to the Nuke Circle you'll hear many different types of practice missions.

Below I've included two maps to help you understand just where the aircraft you hear are actually located. Most training missions you'll hear using the range will be F-16's (callsign SHARK's and MAKO's) flying out of the Homestead Airforce Base just south of Miami, FL. I suggest you look elsewhere on this website for frequencies for Homestead (note: I have not yet put together the Homestead page, keep checking).

The map on the left is a scanned image from an Aeronautical Chart (airplane road map). Below the maps image you'll find links to larger version of this area which you can print. This map shows the Military Operations Areas (MOA) and Restricted areas which make up the Avon Park Range Complex. The map on the right is a simple overview of Central Florida. This will give you a general idea of just where the Avon Park range is located in relation to various Florida cities. If you click on the map image a larger version of this map will be displayed.

Map Line/Image Name Image Size (pixils) File Size avon_park_sectional_1m.jpg 900 x 706 283 KB avon_park_sectional_1.jpg 1588 x 1246 1 Meg

For those who like to enter frequencies into your own database or spreadsheet I've included a Comma Separated Value (CSV). With the CSV file you should be able to import these frequencies into your favorite scanner programming software, Excel spreadsheet or your favorite database program. For the Comma separated Value file Click Here.

Note: Frequencies in bold seem to be the most active.
These frequencies were verifed August 1, 2003

Frequency (MHz)	Description	Modulation
124.1750	Approach Control	AM
126.1500	Avon Ops (see note 1 below)	AM
132.3250	Charlie Range	AM
132.5750	Oscar Range	AM
132.8750	Bravo Range	AM
138.0500	Buccaneer Ops	AM
138.1250	Air-Air	AM
138.4000	Air-Air	AM
138.4500	Air-Air	AM
139.8000	Air-Air	AM
141.9000	MAKO Air-Air	AM
150.2250	Range/Target Operations Net	FM
150.2750	Law Enforcement/Fire Net	FM
150.3450	Security	FM
163.3750	Sounds like Building Maint.	FM
164.9625	Miscellaneous Net	FM
165.1375	Miscellaneous Net	FM
166.0000	Miscellaneous Net	FM
166.2500	Miscellaneous Net	FM
238.9000	Lake Placid MOA/AR-620	AM
264.6000	Bravo Range	AM
264.6250	Range Controllers Bravo & Foxtrot	AM
271.2000	GCI Operations	AM
276.6000	Range Target Scoring	AM
276.8000	Air-to-Ground Tactical Training	AM
281.5000	Miami Center AirTrafficControl	AM
282.8000	River Range/Hard Luck Drop Zone	AM
283.7000	Buccaneer Ops.	AM
285.5000	Miami Center AirTrafficControl	AM
285.7250	Range Controllers Charlie & Echo	AM
286.4000	Charlie Range	AM
292.2000	Range Control	AM
307.1000	Miami Center AirTrafficControl	AM
321.0000	Air-Air	AM
335.9500	??Possible TARPON freq also W174	AM
349.0000	Miami Center AirTrafficControl	AM
349.3000	Range Target Scoring	AM
350.6750	(Commonly paired with 355.675)	AM
353.8000	MAKO's Discrete a/a	AM
354.4000	Range Target Scoring	AM
355.6750	(Commonly paired with 350.675)	AM
359.4000	RANGE	AM
41.6000	Miscellaneous Net	FM
41.9500	A-10 Air-Air AVON	FM
46.7500	Miscellaneous Net	FM
49.8500	Miscellaneous Net	FM
49.9000	Miscellaneous Net	FM

(1) - Many sources including the Grove Military directory have this listed as "Avon Tower". There are no tower controlled airports in or near the Avon Park range. I was able to find 126.1500 is actually listed in the FLIP VFR Supplement (a DOD Flight Information Publication which is updated every 24 weeks). It’s listed as the Avon Ops frequency for the MacDill AFB Aux Fld. This is a small airport that’s within the Avon Park range. (FAA Identifier AGR).

From time to time you'll hear civil aircraft call up on this freq. requesting the status of the R-2901 or one of the many Avon Park MOA's. This is common however that does not make it a "Tower" frequency as claimed by Groves directory.

It always bothered me that one of the famous Bob Grove miltiary frequency guides has 126.1500 marked as a tower freq. I always kept scratching my head when looking at sectionals (aviation maps) for the area and could never find a controlled airport anywhere near Avon Park. I guess its just one more mistake in his guides. Or possibly another attempt to pass off bogus information to intrap copyright violators. If anyone know about the famous Satellite Frequency Plan Delta then you know what I mean :)

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