Some amateur rigs receive AM aircraft band. Most of mine do, HT's and mobiles. That's what I use for power line sniffing.
Chuck WB2EDV ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul N1BUG" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2009 8:05 AM Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Quieting duplex noise from a tower >> Aircraft handhelds are AM in the 120MHz region. Some handheld >> scanners do aircraft AM just fine. > > Ah! Somehow that hadn't occurred to me. The president of our club is > a pilot and has one. > > I guess there are no weak, constant signals in the aircraft band (?) > but maybe it's not necessary. I will try climbing the tower with it > and see if it does anything when I move or vibrate guy wires and > other hardware.... with the repeater transmitter on of course. It's > possible the aircraft handheld will just be desensed by 2 meter RF > and unable to hear the noise (?) but it will be interesting to see > what happens. > > Paul N1BUG >
