AOA/AMA Call Signs for Vehicles

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With the new Draft A/C coming out on Ground Vehicle ADS-B Out Squitter Equipment, it has my mind already turning, since we are one of the airports that are on the list to be approved first for its use. That being said...I am wondering what you are using for call signs for ATC to vehicle communications at your airports. At our airport, the on duty manager is "OPS 60" and the airfield specialists are OPS 651-654, or their personal radio call signs (mine, for example, is 611). Can you share some insight with me, as we start to look at making call sign changes?

Thanks!

'Da Wingnut

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Both LIT and MSY have a system similar to MEM's, where individual people have numerical callsigns but the Duty Manager or Operations Supervisor on duty are designated Ops 10 (LIT) or Oscar 2 (MSY).

Anyone not acting as the primary contact for Ops on that shift uses their personal callsign.

We had some discussion about this a few weeks ago on this site. Look for the thread "Call Signs" on the general aviation tab, lots of different ideas there.

At MEM, most people use the same callsign that they use on our internal (motorolla) system, and (most)everyone's is unique to either the person or the position. However, in Ops, we use our vehicle call signs: "Ops 1 & Ops 2" for the Duty Managers. When we bought our latest vehicles, we thought about using unique callsigns, but ATCT said that they liked knowing that Ops 1 & Ops 2 were the people they wanted to talk to, regardless of who it really was at that time.

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