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Offline alphaecho

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Feed Question
« on: May 28, 2009, 09:59:10 PM »
I have searched for this everywhere and can't find the answer...so I'm hoping someone can help me...

There are a few Boston ARTCC feeds that I would like to listen to, and even the ones that do not say aircraft-only reception, I still only hear aircraft transmissions.  Sometimes I almost hear the controller side, but reallllllllllllllllllly quiet.  I have to put my ear to the speaker and can still barely hear.  Is it because I'm too far away from the feed? Is it a setting in my program?  I have a MacBook, and use iTunes to listen.  Is there something else I could use and hear both?

I seem to remember people saying something about mono or dual or something?? :? Help! thanks :-D



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Re: Feed Question
« Reply #1 on: May 29, 2009, 12:28:31 AM »
Can you give a specific feed that you are asking about?  It's hard answering questions about unnamed feeds.

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Re: Feed Question
« Reply #2 on: May 29, 2009, 08:32:46 AM »
In Boston ARTCC:

High/East (Athens, Cambridge, Parso)
MPV52 (Montpelier Sector 52/Burlington, VT)
GDM/CON (Gardner Sector 36, Concord Sector 37)

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Re: Feed Question
« Reply #3 on: May 29, 2009, 08:36:44 AM »
I hear the Center controllers on all of those feeds.  I run the GDM/CON feed personally and know that Center is always audible, with one exception: on 134.7 there are two transmitters, one in Gardner, MA (audible) and one in Lebanon, NH (not audible, too far).  The controller on the CON sector can choose between those two transmitters.  So that is the only case that I know of on those listed feeds where the controller might be inaudible.

Dave

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Re: Feed Question
« Reply #4 on: May 29, 2009, 08:53:57 AM »
Thanks for checking that out.  I'll try listening again, and if I can't hear the center (I specifically remember this problem on the high/east feed) do you think it's something I can do through my listening software?  Sorry, I know it's probably hard to tell not knowing what I have...

Anyway, so you run the feed and live out here, do you by any chance work in the area that you have your feeds in??? :wink: (I do :-)) just curious.  Well actually I'm in the FEMA trailers right now.  If none of that makes sense, disregard hahaha

-AM

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Re: Feed Question
« Reply #5 on: May 29, 2009, 10:10:08 AM »
Thanks for checking that out.  I'll try listening again, and if I can't hear the center (I specifically remember this problem on the high/east feed) do you think it's something I can do through my listening software?  Sorry, I know it's probably hard to tell not knowing what I have...

High/East is aircraft only.  Those ground transmitters are too far away from the Boston area receivers.  Some are up in Maine and some are down on Cape Cod.  You can hear some of the Cape-based ZBW sectors (low and high) on the Hyannis (KHYA) feed.

Anyway, so you run the feed and live out here, do you by any chance work in the area that you have your feeds in??? :wink: (I do :-)) just curious.  Well actually I'm in the FEMA trailers right now.  If none of that makes sense, disregard hahaha
-AM

I do live and work in the Boston area.  Are you in the town that begins with an M?


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Re: Feed Question
« Reply #6 on: May 29, 2009, 11:25:24 AM »
Out of curiosity are the transmitters for ZBW generally co-located with VOR's and other navigation aids? For example Dave you mentioned that the transmitters for the concord sector are located in Lebanon,NH and Gardner,MA and I think both of the sites have VORs.

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Re: Feed Question
« Reply #7 on: May 29, 2009, 11:36:28 AM »
Out of curiosity are the transmitters for ZBW generally co-located with VOR's and other navigation aids? For example Dave you mentioned that the transmitters for the concord sector are located in Lebanon,NH and Gardner,MA and I think both of the sites have VORs.

Some yes, some no.

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Re: Feed Question
« Reply #8 on: May 29, 2009, 02:23:30 PM »
Nope...I live and work in the town that starts with an N.

I thought perhaps we worked at the same place, given the feeds that you operate... 8-)

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