Northern Ireland Aviation Enthusiast's Forum
General Aviation Discussion => General Aviation Discussion => Topic started by: Jimi182 on April 12, 2017, 10:11:23 AM
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Hi all.
Thought it would be interesting to see what everyone's airband scanner setup is.
I have a Uniden 3500, a small £10 Nagoya magmout antenna for home use and a £10 Nagoya antenna for when out and about. I have a lot of frequencies, some which I pick up great with the magmount.
I'm sure my setup is very modest comparing to some....
J
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Everything running on Uniden base scanners off a Diamond D777 antenna in the loft. Use the recording options and have any new hits (previously not heard freqs) notified via a PowerShell script, reading frequencies from a csv file.
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AOR8000 on a base stand various antena in roof space
. Bearcat3000XLT Mobile
LOWE HF150 with 30 meter wire and tuner
bearcat BC355N for acars and monitoring marine band
Yes its all over 20 years old but with care it works well
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My air radios are really modest!
I still use an AOR2002 at home and a tiny ICOM IC-R5 that stays in the car. (Yes, I'm that old)
The AOR has a home brew antenna and is programmed with a Mk1 Finger.
The R5 has a Watson antenna and is programmed using the free parnass scripts running on Linux. It has banks for aircraft, marine, PMR and a bank of interesting stuff like bouncers, buses and (thanks to a gentleman on this forum) the referee's mike at the Ulster games.
If I was starting out, I'd buy a Uniden3500 or one of the new 3600's - just like yours.
Does anyone use SDR?
(A dongle similar to that used for ADSB/ Virtual Radar)
It can do the frequency analysis and recording that causeway74 talks about + plus it could be streamed over the internet.