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Offline Hopkins

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Re: New Cleveland Center feed
« Reply #25 on: September 11, 2006, 11:40:59 PM »
Here is my opinion on what should be listed on Hopkins' feed

Super High--132.925,120.075,120.325,133.075and 133.525
High--134.125,134.775,133.375,119.875,135.725,119.325,127.675, and 119.725
Low--124.325,125.875,126.725,120.775,127.9,132.25,132.45,134.9,120.6,128.15
         135.1,126.975,and 134.65

Again just my suggestion!!!!!!!!

I can look into adding 124.325 and 126.975 (both Wayland: Low).  Do you think I'd be able to pick up anything on 126.725?  It's labeled as "Bradford", and if that's Bradford, OH, it's pretty far away from Cleveland to pick up a "Low", don't you think?

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Offline JetScan1

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Re: New Cleveland Center feed
« Reply #26 on: September 12, 2006, 12:46:46 AM »
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I can look into adding 124.325 and 126.975 (both Wayland: Low).  Do you think I'd be able to pick up anything on 126.725?  It's labeled as "Bradford", and if that's Bradford, OH, it's pretty far away from Cleveland to pick up a "Low", don't you think?

The center of these low sectors are about 150 nautical miles from CLE, even with a good external antenna and no obstructions you will only get partial coverage of this sector depending on how high the aircraft are. The last time I listened to your feed the reception range seemed very poor, like around 50% of what it could be (with a good antenna, no obstructions), so my guess is you would get nothing on these frequencies ? But the only way to know for sure is just try listening to those frequencies only and see if you hear anything.

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Here is my opinion on what should be listed on Hopkins' feed

Super High--132.925,120.075,120.325,133.075and 133.525
High--134.125,134.775,133.375,119.875,135.725,119.325,127.675, and 119.725
Low--124.325,125.875,126.725,120.775,127.9,132.25,132.45,134.9,120.6,128.15
         135.1,126.975,and 134.65

While it would be nice to be able to monitor all those frequencies suggested, IMO it doesn't make any sense trying to scan them all on one radio at the same time. First of all unless you have a scanner with some sort of hyper scanning speed, the begining of a lot of transmission will get clipped, and because it's such busy airspace each frequency just ends up blocking out the other ones. So what ends up happening when you try to scan close to 30 frequencies as suggested, yes you hear almost nonstop chatter, but you are probably only hearing maybe 10% on each individual frequency, making it very difficult to follow what is going on.

Personally I think it's much better trying to concentrate on a smaller area at a time. The problem with the CLE area is there is a lot to choose from. If it was me I'd pick one of the following configurations to scan at one time.

Configuration 1
Area IV (high)

120.325
119.325
127.675
133.375
119.875

Configuration 2
Area VII + Area V (high)

132.925
134.125
133.075
119.725

Configuration 3
Low altitude adjacent to CLE area

135.100
128.150
134.900
120.775
127.900
132.450
134.900

Configuration 4
Area III (high)

119.375
120.625
128.025
118.625

Configuration 5
Area II (high)

133.525
120.075
135.725
134.775

Ideally you would have 5 separate radios, but in this case with only one radio, a possible solution might be to rotate through the various configurations, changing it up every week or so. Just a suggestion. DJ



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