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Air Traffic Monitoring => Feed Setup Pictures => Topic started by: hammack on February 07, 2009, 08:27:27 PM
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Here's the setup at KGPT. The scanner is a Radio Shack Pro-90 using a home-made 2m ground plane antenna cut to aviation frequencies.
http://gotslack.org/hammack/kgpt
I have an Arrow Antenna j-pole in a box, waiting for the stars to align so I can get a mast erected. Maybe it will end up in the attic, too...
The computer on the right handles the KGPT feed and is a 333 MHz Pentium running Slackware 10.0. (The other computer is my "good" computer - an Athlon XP 1900+ running Slackware 12.2)
"Proud to be
Microsoft-free."
KD5IVL, Mississippi Gulf Coast
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How far from the field are you? Having a metal roof, I was forced, gladly, to put a j-pole outsude and high. Wished I could get about 6 more feet in hight, but its above the quarter wave dist from the metal.
If you can swing it, getting a pole outside and high should get you great reception, already receiving field ground traffic and the transmitters from the attic. Plus, it's alot more fun having a huge antenna attached to the side of your abode rather than hidden, I would think (huge grin)....
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Would the OSJ - Model OSJ 146/440 Dual Band J-Pole from Arrow Antennas be the one to choose for monitoring the aviation band, or would it need to be cut to the aviation frequency band?
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The Arrow antenna I have is for 2m amateur radio (~144 MHz, ~19.5 in.) so is actually a little short for aviation frequencies (~125 MHz, ~22.5 in.) but seems to work fine for the scanner.
I'm about 9 miles from the airport, so with the homemade antenna in the attic I don't get great reception. I've hooked up the Arrow j-pole in the attic and it seems to work better, even though it's a few inches short. I hope to get it up on a mast soon, but I have a few house repairs that my wife feels are more important. ;-)
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Hammack, do you have plans on getting the GPT feed back up? Thanks!
David
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The feed should be back up now. I'm having problems with the antique computer I'm using, so there may be more outages until I get it replaced. I'll try to do a better job of keeping an eye on it, though.