Tonimr
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Hi:
I'm an aviation photographer looking to improve its airband receiver. I'm currently using a Uniden UBC-30XLT and an old Yupiteru MVT-7100.
I've also had had several receivers in the past (IC-R1, Yaesu VR-120, IC-R5).
At the airport all of them work according to my needs but at home I get a lot of noise and it's hard to discern lower signals. I use ATIS for testing as it seems to be the weakest signal. I'm only 5 miles from the airport and I sometimes hear the the ATC from Barcelona FIR (100 miles!) much better than local ATIS!
I live in the fourth floor of a five level building and using the stock rubber antennas though I've made some tests with an indoor folded dipole with almost the same results. I'm currently planning to made a 1/4 GP and probably a filtering LNA.
By now I'm discarding the use of rooftop antennas. Even still keeping my A radio amateur license that would give me the rights to mount something there, this should be made with the 5th floor owner permission and while he's a friend, he's not very keen to help as I found out when trying to mount an ADS-B antenna there (finally placed in one of my two terraces).
The question is that I was looking to replace the UBC-30XLT for the UBC-125XLT because of its better audio, frequency managing and alpha tagging but according to the specs I think it has the same or very similar RF stages. I'd like to know if some of you could confirm it.
Moreover, I'm also interested in the IC-R30. I know it's expensive and one might think it's overkill but I like its features, wider coverage, dual receiver, BT... and it would be very good to replace both the UBC-30XLT and the MVT 7100.
The problem is that, by reading the specs I see its sensibility in Airband AM it's 1.4 uV (10 dB S/N) vs the 0.4 uV (ok: measured as 12dB SINAD) of the Unidens (Even IC-R6 is 0.63 μV 10 dB S/N). I wouldn't like to sacrifice signal for features but by reading at forums and reviews some say the IC R-30 performs better than the Uniden in Airband so that would be good enough for me.
I'de be very grateful if someone could give me its impressions about this subject.
Thanks in advance!
I'm an aviation photographer looking to improve its airband receiver. I'm currently using a Uniden UBC-30XLT and an old Yupiteru MVT-7100.
I've also had had several receivers in the past (IC-R1, Yaesu VR-120, IC-R5).
At the airport all of them work according to my needs but at home I get a lot of noise and it's hard to discern lower signals. I use ATIS for testing as it seems to be the weakest signal. I'm only 5 miles from the airport and I sometimes hear the the ATC from Barcelona FIR (100 miles!) much better than local ATIS!
I live in the fourth floor of a five level building and using the stock rubber antennas though I've made some tests with an indoor folded dipole with almost the same results. I'm currently planning to made a 1/4 GP and probably a filtering LNA.
By now I'm discarding the use of rooftop antennas. Even still keeping my A radio amateur license that would give me the rights to mount something there, this should be made with the 5th floor owner permission and while he's a friend, he's not very keen to help as I found out when trying to mount an ADS-B antenna there (finally placed in one of my two terraces).
The question is that I was looking to replace the UBC-30XLT for the UBC-125XLT because of its better audio, frequency managing and alpha tagging but according to the specs I think it has the same or very similar RF stages. I'd like to know if some of you could confirm it.
Moreover, I'm also interested in the IC-R30. I know it's expensive and one might think it's overkill but I like its features, wider coverage, dual receiver, BT... and it would be very good to replace both the UBC-30XLT and the MVT 7100.
The problem is that, by reading the specs I see its sensibility in Airband AM it's 1.4 uV (10 dB S/N) vs the 0.4 uV (ok: measured as 12dB SINAD) of the Unidens (Even IC-R6 is 0.63 μV 10 dB S/N). I wouldn't like to sacrifice signal for features but by reading at forums and reviews some say the IC R-30 performs better than the Uniden in Airband so that would be good enough for me.
I'de be very grateful if someone could give me its impressions about this subject.
Thanks in advance!