SMA UNAUTH ENTRY CLASS D AIRSPACE LANDED WITHOUT CLRNC.

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MCKELLAR FIELD IS NOW AN ATA WITH AN OPERATIONAL CTL TWR ON FIELD. THE CTL TWR/CTAF FREQ IS 127.15 AS OF MAY/XX/95 AND AS PUBLISHED IN CURRENT SECTIONALS AND CHARTS. I XMITTED ON 127.15 TO RPT INBOUND; BUT I ONLY HEARD GARBLE ON THE RADIO. I THEN INTUITIVELY SWITCHED TO 123.6 WHICH IS THE OLD CTL TWR/CTAF FREQ AND MADE ANNOUNCEMENTS AS WERE REQUIRED. I HAVE BEEN TO MCKELLAR FIELD SEVERAL TIMES IN THE PAST AND I HAVE ALWAYS COMMUNICATED ON 123.6. SINCE I RECEIVED NO RESPONSE ON EITHER FREQ; I MADE THE ASSUMPTION THAT THE TWR WAS CLOSED. I PROCEEDED CLOSER TO THE ARPT AND SAW NO LIGHT SIGNALS FROM THE TWR. AS I PROCEEDED TO LAND; ANOTHER ACFT WELL BEHIND ME MADE A GAR. IT WAS NOT A NEAR MISS. AFTER MY TOUCH-AND-GO; I PROCEEDED TO THE NDB (MERCY) TO HOLD AND THINK ABOUT THINGS. SHORTLY THEREAFTER; I HEARD GARBLE ONCE AGAIN AND ON 123.6. IN THE GARBLE I COULD BARELY MAKE OUT 'CHANGE TO 127.15 AND CONTACT TWR.' I THEN CHANGED FREQS AND FURTHER XMITTED. THE CTL TWR'S XMISSIONS WERE BROKEN AND BARELY READABLE. I THEN TOLD THE TWR OF HIS XMISSIONS AND THAT I WOULD PROCEED INBOUND AND TALK TO HIM ON THE GND. I EXPLAINED THE SIT AND HE MADE HIS RPT. THE GENTLEMAN WAS VERY HELPFUL; AND HE INVITED ME BACK TO MCKELLAR FIELD. I HAVE DETERMINED THAT THE RADIO I WAS USING WAS IN FACT OPERABLE BECAUSE I HAD GOOD RADIO CONTACT WITH ZME AND OTHER STATIONS THAT WERE MI AWAY. BECAUSE I HEARD GARBLE ON 127.15; I COULD NOT HELP BUT TO WONDER IF THE FREQ WAS PUBLISHED IN ERROR; SO I INTUITIVELY SWITCHED TO 123.6 TO XMIT AS I HAD IN PREVIOUS YRS. THE CTLR TOLD ME THAT HE IS SUPPOSED TO MONITOR 123.6; BUT HE ONLY HEARD ME ONCE; AT WHICH TIME HE SWITCHED ME TO 127.15. I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW IF ANYONE ELSE HAS HAD THIS EXPERIENCE AT MCKELLAR FIELD; AND IS THE CTLR'S RADIO XMITTING AND RECEIVING AS IT SHOULD? IN THE MIDST OF THIS ENTIRE EVENT; I WAS XMITTING IN THE BLIND. SINCE I RECEIVED NO INDICATIONS FROM THE TWR OR ANY OTHER ACFT; I ASSUMED THE LOST COMS PROC WHILE HOPING THE OTHER ACFT WOULD EXTEND ITS DOWNWIND LEG. I HAD IN FACT PREPARED FOR THIS FLT AS PER PART 91 REGS AND I WAS CLRED TO LAND FOR THE FULL STOP AT MCKELLAR FIELD. I SCANNED THE AREA THOROUGHLY FOR OTHER TFC PRIOR TO THE TOUCH-AND-GO. THE CTLR TOLD ME I WAS NOT CLRED TO LAND AND THAT I VIOLATED THE CLASS D AIRSPACE. SUPPLEMENTAL INFO FROM ACN 321039: WHILE RIDING AS A PAX; WE LANDED AT ARPT WHILE PLT WAS BROADCASTING ON TWR FREQ AS PUBLISHED ON HIS CHARTS. UPON LNDG; HE WAS ADVISED THAT HE HAD LANDED WITHOUT PERMISSION FROM THE TWR. PLT THOUGHT TWR WAS CLOSED BECAUSE HE RECEIVED NO RESPONSE FROM HIS XMISSIONS. PLT WAS USING FREQ FROM HIS CHARTS WHICH WERE MORE THAN 1 YR OLD. TWR FREQ HAD BEEN CHANGED AND PLT WAS UNAWARE DUE TO HIS HAVING OUTDATED CHARTS. I WAS NOT ACTING AS A CREW MEMBER OR CFI AT ANY TIME DURING THIS FLT.