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can someone recommend me a good scanner?
I'm in the market for a handheld scanner. Ideally I'd like one that
can both receive and transmit on the 108-136 "airband", as well as be able to receive ATIS and CTAF broadcasts from military airports, which I believe are UHF and in the area of 276 MHz. Apparently, such a device is illegal (that can transmit and receive on two different "bands"), so I guess I can live with a unit that can only receive those frequencies, but can't transmit. I've been trying to do research on which unit to get, but it's all very confusing. I guess there are a bunch of different "modes" of transmissions, (AM, FM, WFM, etc) and military airplanes only transmit using one of those types, yet most scanners only decode AM (or something). As you can tell, I'm not a radio expert, so I was hoping if someone out there knows their stuff, they could point me in the right direction. I'm looking to spend about 300 bucks or less. Thanks. |
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can someone recommend me a good scanner?
Why, EEG not looking good?
Bertie |
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can someone recommend me a good scanner?
I'm in the market for a handheld scanner.
For transmitting/receiving/handhelds, I like ICOM. I've owned two of them, and they are as close to bulletproof as I've found. Just an FYI. It ain't "handheld", but we've also got that Sporty's scanner with "aviation interrupt", and it's great. It's locked on the local NPR classical music station, playing nice, tinkly music in the lobby, but it automatically interrupts when someone talks on Unicom or Cedar Rapids approach. (You can program more frequencies, if you want.) It's a nice unit that fills two real needs. My only gripe is that programming is completely non-intuitive -- I have to dig out the manual every time. -- Jay Honeck Iowa City, IA Pathfinder N56993 www.AlexisParkInn.com "Your Aviation Destination" |
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can someone recommend me a good scanner?
On Sep 22, 5:20 am, Jay Honeck wrote:
I'm in the market for a handheld scanner. For transmitting/receiving/handhelds, I like ICOM. I've owned two of them, and they are as close to bulletproof as I've found. Just an FYI. It ain't "handheld", but we've also got that Sporty's scanner with "aviation interrupt", and it's great. It's locked on the local NPR classical music station, playing nice, tinkly music in the lobby, but it automatically interrupts when someone talks on Unicom or Cedar Rapids approach. (You can program more frequencies, if you want.) It's a nice unit that fills two real needs. My only gripe is that programming is completely non-intuitive -- I have to dig out the manual every time. -- Jay Honeck Iowa City, IA Pathfinder N56993www.AlexisParkInn.com "Your Aviation Destination" Does the ICom model you have tried receive military transmissions? What about the sporty's? |
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can someone recommend me a good scanner?
Does the ICom model you have tried receive military transmissions?
What about the sporty's? Nope. Sporty's doesn't, and I don't know any handheld *transmitter* that does. -- Jay Honeck Iowa City, IA Pathfinder N56993 www.AlexisParkInn.com "Your Aviation Destination" |
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can someone recommend me a good scanner?
Being multiband is not illegal. I believe the issue is civilian use of
military frequencies There are plenty of multiband radios on the market - some amatuer radio/HAM equipment can broadcast on 4 distinct bands. Yaesu used to make a VHF/UHF public safety band radio. Just not seen any civilian transcievers that do VHF and UHF air band - and the stick in the mud is UHF air band cause its uncle sams. Dave buttman wrote: I'm in the market for a handheld scanner. Ideally I'd like one that can both receive and transmit on the 108-136 "airband", as well as be able to receive ATIS and CTAF broadcasts from military airports, which I believe are UHF and in the area of 276 MHz. Apparently, such a device is illegal (that can transmit and receive on two different "bands"), so I guess I can live with a unit that can only receive those frequencies, but can't transmit. I've been trying to do research on which unit to get, but it's all very confusing. I guess there are a bunch of different "modes" of transmissions, (AM, FM, WFM, etc) and military airplanes only transmit using one of those types, yet most scanners only decode AM (or something). As you can tell, I'm not a radio expert, so I was hoping if someone out there knows their stuff, they could point me in the right direction. I'm looking to spend about 300 bucks or less. Thanks. |
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can someone recommend me a good scanner?
On Sat, 22 Sep 2007 16:50:43 -0700, buttman wrote:
Does the ICom model you have tried receive military transmissions? What about the sporty's? You might have to get a civilian air handheld (transmit / receive), and a military air scanner. |
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can someone recommend me a good scanner?
"buttman" wrote in message ups.com... On Sep 22, 5:20 am, Jay Honeck wrote: I'm in the market for a handheld scanner. For transmitting/receiving/handhelds, I like ICOM. I've owned two of them, and they are as close to bulletproof as I've found. Just an FYI. It ain't "handheld", but we've also got that Sporty's scanner with "aviation interrupt", and it's great. It's locked on the local NPR classical music station, playing nice, tinkly music in the lobby, but it automatically interrupts when someone talks on Unicom or Cedar Rapids approach. (You can program more frequencies, if you want.) It's a nice unit that fills two real needs. My only gripe is that programming is completely non-intuitive -- I have to dig out the manual every time. -- Jay Honeck Iowa City, IA Pathfinder N56993www.AlexisParkInn.com "Your Aviation Destination" Does the ICom model you have tried receive military transmissions? What about the sporty's? I have an Icom R5 receiver only. It is a terrific little scanner, fits in my shirt pocket, gets VHF, UHF, weather, Am and FM. Essentially, it receives everything except cellphones, and there are unblocked versions for that. As I remember, you can pre-program about 1200 frequencies and search bands. It goes with me whenever I even approach an airport. With re-chargeable batteries, it is around $200. I agree with Jay, it is not the easiest to program. There is an application you can run on your PC that will program the entire unit. Al G The transmit job is a little different. You will want bigger batteries and a specifically tuned antenna. This will probably be a second radio |
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can someone recommend me a good scanner?
buttman wrote:
I'm in the market for a handheld scanner. Ideally I'd like one that can both receive and transmit on the 108-136 "airband", as well as be able to receive ATIS and CTAF broadcasts from military airports, which I believe are UHF and in the area of 276 MHz. I've got the ICOM A-6 which handles the civilian com frequencies. I believe the A-24 is the same radio, but includes the nav frequencies 108- 117MHz. Don't most military fields have both UHF and VHF frequencies? While travelling, I often punch in the VHF ATIS frequency to get a report from a military field. They also usually have VHF frequencies for the tower. On a civilian airband radio, you could hear the tower, but not the military planes that were talking to the tower. I've never needed any special radio equipment for flying into military airports. What is it that you're trying to accomplish? John Galban=====N4BQ (PA28-180) -- Message posted via AviationKB.com http://www.aviationkb.com/Uwe/Forums...ation/200709/1 |
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