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Hello Nigel!

11 Oct 25 01:04, you wrote to deon:


 NR> I can pick up aircraft comms on my old Radio Shack scanner, espcially
 NR> coming into Love Field, which is one of the busiest medium sized hubs
 NR> in the US. I expect to pick up a lot of airplane traffic once I get
 NR> this antenna outside.

Also, (In case you didn't already know) a receiving antenna the correct length
will receive better than a random length one. It isn't nearly as critical,
however, and one that is used to transmit.

The antenna I use for my SDRs (as mentioned in a previous message) is is a 2
meter J-Pole atop a 30 foot tower, along with others. The repeaters that they
are monitoring (Cal Fire, US Forest Service) are scattered along the Sierra
Nevada at an altitude of 5700 to over 8000 feet above sea level. My elevation
here is less than 300 feet ASL. So reception is not usually an issue here.

73 de W6RAY Ray Quinn
Visalia, CA DM06ii
GMRS WRKZ506



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