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Air Traffic Monitoring => Feed Outage/Status Reports => Topic started by: jerry814 on November 08, 2011, 05:15:50 PM
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Thought I would share my experience with air-band antennas.
After dealing with a "Ham" repeater (W8DZ) blasting away at a KCVG tower frequency, I finally ditched the broadband "scanner" antenna and finally made the transition to an ASP ground-plane antenna cut to 124MHz center frequency, bandwidth about 118MHz to 128MHz. It is so out-of-ham-band, the Ham radio is no longer a factor.
If you listen to the KCVG feed now, it is fairly pure and clean. Not so with a number of others. No buzzing ground-loops, no RF interference, no static on most transmissions. Judge it for yourself after a listen!
The ASP antenna was about $160, so not cheap, but works!
Jerry
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Jerry,
FWIW - I don't know what it sounded like before, but it sounds great now.
Mike
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Great job Jerry!
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Thanks, Dave! I do try to do my best. Gosh knows, I should know how to to this after 39 years with Motorola Communications! Jerry814
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Hmm I maybe having a similar with the SAT feed. There's a HAM store with an array of antennas literally down the street from my antenna location. At times I get clear transmissions from airborne aircraft but rarely from the Tower or App/Dep.
As with any problem, just gotta keep throwing money at it. heh
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Hmm I maybe having a similar with the SAT feed. There's a HAM store with an array of antennas literally down the street from my antenna location. At times I get clear transmissions from airborne aircraft but rarely from the Tower or App/Dep.
As with any problem, just gotta keep throwing money at it. heh
Do you already have a filter in line? If not email me and we can go over your particular setup.