Careful with that powerline sniffing, Chuck. Last time I did that, I burned all the hair out of my nose.
Mike WM4B ---- Chuck Kelsey <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > >
