Hello all,
I am new to this forum, and need your assistance please. I live in the Northern part of Israel, in Haifa.
I have several scanners, two of them are ICOM IC-R5 and R6. I am using them in my business, mostly for fixed frequencies on the 433MHz (ISM) band, and not using them as "scanners", i.e not using most of the scanners features.
Lately, I decided to try to listen to aircraft communications, just for fun. As far as I know, they use AM and the frequencies are within 118 - 137MHz. I live approx. 5km from Haifa airport. I've connected an external vertical antenna, outside my 3 story house.
I've tried to do a band scan on AM Air-band, ( Squelch =1) and got some results, mainly from a small airport, located approx. 30km Northern of my position. Very high quality. However, no signal from the closest one, and I actually can see from time to time the aircraft in landing position. Nothing but silence...
Just for fun, I tried to change to WFM and make a manual scan. For my surprise, I received the main airport located approx. 130km from my house(BG, Tel - Aviv Airport, and on a real WIDE band, almost 3 MHz ) with a lot of humming when NOT in transmission mode (static + ~400-500Hz), but again, no transmissions from the nearer one.
I've tried to scan MANUALLY on AM the frequencies (5 kHz steps) - no way to receive, even with squelch = 0...
What am I doing wrong?
I'll be very thankful for any assistance.
Thanks in advance.
I am new to this forum, and need your assistance please. I live in the Northern part of Israel, in Haifa.
I have several scanners, two of them are ICOM IC-R5 and R6. I am using them in my business, mostly for fixed frequencies on the 433MHz (ISM) band, and not using them as "scanners", i.e not using most of the scanners features.
Lately, I decided to try to listen to aircraft communications, just for fun. As far as I know, they use AM and the frequencies are within 118 - 137MHz. I live approx. 5km from Haifa airport. I've connected an external vertical antenna, outside my 3 story house.
I've tried to do a band scan on AM Air-band, ( Squelch =1) and got some results, mainly from a small airport, located approx. 30km Northern of my position. Very high quality. However, no signal from the closest one, and I actually can see from time to time the aircraft in landing position. Nothing but silence...
Just for fun, I tried to change to WFM and make a manual scan. For my surprise, I received the main airport located approx. 130km from my house(BG, Tel - Aviv Airport, and on a real WIDE band, almost 3 MHz ) with a lot of humming when NOT in transmission mode (static + ~400-500Hz), but again, no transmissions from the nearer one.
I've tried to scan MANUALLY on AM the frequencies (5 kHz steps) - no way to receive, even with squelch = 0...
What am I doing wrong?
I'll be very thankful for any assistance.
Thanks in advance.