I had wanted to post on this thread earlier, but also didn't want to open a box of worms; but now that someone else has done it, I'll jump in (with the friendliest of intentions)!
First off, very positive progress on KH: great website, PPR form, fly-in etc - outstanding job! We should celebrate this. I'll try and pop down soon if I can.
However, there's something I've been tossing around in my brain the past few days, which is the fact that you now have two growing airfields in extreme close proximity, operating on different frequencies, potentially with competing interests and common challenges, in a dynamic that hasn't existed previously.
As someone who learnt over the road several years back, I only recall one occasion where I ever saw traffic departing/arriving Kittyhawk - it was always very quiet and historically viewed as a 'private strip'. IIRC, KH traffic would pop onto Deanland frequency to broadcast before taking off also, which is a good thing.
I know that KH has always previously used Safetycom and so there have always been two different frequencies, but it looks to me that KH is now trying to pro-actively grow traffic and attract visitors (which is great).
But my comment is really: hopefully this is a genuine success story to celebrate and two very close airfields (less than a mile?) can thrive symbiotically. But, I really hope that if traffic grows, we don't start seeing close calls between aircraft in a confined space talking on different frequencies, or increased noise complaints from a community that is already sensitive to such things.
I totally get that this is a first world problem to have and it's entirely KH's prorogative to try and market itself, but just wanted to call out something that would quite rightly heighten my sense of attention if I flew in, that's all.
Off the back of this, I was actually trying to think of situations where two strips existed so close together - I was thinking about Laddingford and Old Hay - but both of those use Safetycom.