You raise Center out in the boonies by looking up its frequency in the back
of the A/FD...or by asking a nearby FSS for the appropriate frequency. If it
is the only avenue available to you, you can communicate with FSS by
transmitting on 122.1 and listening on the VOR freq (mention the VOR you are
using in the initial call)....but the number of alternatives to duplex is
increasing daily.

I'm not aware of an online primer, but I can recommend SAY AGAIN, PLEASE,
published by ASA, or the ASA CD-ROM Communications Trainer. Can't deny that
I have a personal interest in both.

Bob Gardner

"Roger Long" om wrote in
message ...
I'm about to make my first cross country outside of our comfortable New
England airspace where flight following is pretty much automatic and you
just keep tuning in the next frequency they give you.

I'm not sure if things will be the same out in the wilds of western New
York
and Ohio. Can anyone point me to an online source where I can brush up on
the things I learned and forgot a few years ago, how to receive on a VOR,
how to raise center out in the boonies, etc?

--
Roger Long