On Thu, 28 Dec 2006 18:52:37 -0600, "Dave Bethke"
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>"krackula >" < wrote
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>> ................they kinda look like an inverted
>> ice cream cone ( but huge ) with a buncha little antennas around the
>> base of the thing ( a kind of directional or locator beacon
>> aircraft stuff ) on top of a small white building .........
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>That sounds like a VOR (VHF Omni Range) station. Not to many around the
>ranges, at least civilian ones. There's one at LAS on the field, right near
>the intersection of the two sets of double runways. No doubt the AF uses
>portable temporary ones for training.
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yep that's the ones ok ! typed " VHF Omni Range " into Google
and they popped up.
would a person be able to use an icom ic-a2 ( for example ) to find
those ? don't have to read them or anything like that , just find
them if they are transmitting nearby ? how far away from those ,
on the ground , do you think a person could hear them with something
like the ic-a2 ? I'm guessing those are ( if hearable with an a2 )
found on the bottom half of the receiving freq range of the a2 ?
( since I never seem to hear much down there ) .
also , have you ever played with those Zoan MRX traffic ( air )
alerts ( or similar gizmos ) that read the reflections off "
illuminated " transponders of in-flight aircraft to see how well
they did around on the ground ? ( maybe for red flag or on some of
those UAVs ? )
sometimes it'd be nice to know when possible photo opportunities
are about to happen so you could be ready to take a picture in time !
ha ha ha haha ha frequently they happen so fast , a person can't
get ready fast enough to get a picture off ! my camera shuts down if
I don't twiddle the controls or something every now and then ! it's
never ready when those " low and fast " runs are thundering overhead
, it seems ! ( worse , I'M never ready ! )
thanks
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