I've generally had varying success with an AM broadcast radio, but a VHF aircraft radio always lets me walk right up to the bad area.
73 Tom --------------------- Many Hams today don't realize that the VHF aircraft band is AM, not FM such as most hand-held Ham VHF radios use. Of course, FM is inherently noise suppressing, ignoring all amplitude modulation. That makes most Ham hand-helds useless for this purpose. However, some do receive the 120 MHz aircraft band with an AM detector. My Icom W32A is one of those. It is excellent for chasing noise, as Tom notes. The noise tends to be weaker and not propagate so easily at 120 MHz, so the source is usually much more clearly defined as you wander around with the radio in hand. Ron AC7AC _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: [email protected] You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
