I live sort of near a smaller airport and can hear planes talking to the tower but can't pick up tower talking to the planes. I was just wondering if tower's outgoing stuff is LOS limited?
I'm about 5 miles away and 200' or so lower and there are buildings between us.
(uniden bc125AT with a diamond rh77ca antenna if that means anything)
Thanks in advance.
Yep. You'd be limited by Line of Sight.
My apartment in Las Vegas is 3 miles from KVGT, tucked in between the centerlines of runways 7 and 12R, and I can only hear the pilots from where I am at, and I'm on the top floor. No clear line of sight for me to the tower unless I get to a higher altitude than the buildings between me and the field.
The only way to get around that is to either get closer to the field, or get your antenna to be higher than the buildings/obstructions between you and the receiver at the field.
BL.