ehuber317
Member
I have for many years always been able to monitor the tower broadcasts on 119.400. For the last several months I can only hear the inbound flight. The ATC in the tower is no longer readable. Is anyone else having this issue.
Monitoring the BWI tower
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I have no issues monitoring it.
ehuber317
Member
I have been using the waterfall display on the sds200 and I faintly see the ATC. Maybe it's time to move the antenna. I have no issues receiving ground control @ 121.9000.
tvengr
Well Known Member
Give this thread a read: SDS100/SDS200: - SDS200 low audio in AM waterfall while sweeping
The ground frequency has antennas oriented to T/R to aircraft on the ground. The tower frequecies favor aircraft that are airborne in the vicinity of the airport. Perhaps the FAA re-engineered the antenna patterns, or a structure has been erected that blocks the signal in your vector.
ehuber317
Member
The problem has been somewhat resolved. The audio is low but it always has been. I removed the little Jim Pre-Amp and the tower is now readable. I forgot I had put this thing inline. It has a switch that allows signal rejection above or below the indicated frequency range.
Tomcu96
Member
I would recommend listening to the live ATC with typing in the bwi and checking out the local traffic in the airport
tvengr
Well Known Member
Here is a list of the ATC frequencies for BWI:
| Balt-Wash Intl | |
| 119.400 | BWI Tower VHF |
| 257.800 | BWI Tower UHF |
| 121.900 | BWI Ground VHF |
| 120.200 | BWI Grnd Alt VHF |
| 377.075 | BWI Ground UHF |
| 118.050 | BWI Clear Deliv |
| 122.950 | BWI Unicom |
| 127.800 | BWI ATIS |
| 119.000 | Pot App/Dep VHF |
| 119.700 | Pot App/Dep VHF |
| 124.550 | Pot App/Dep VHF |
| 125.525 | Pot App/Dep VHF |
| 128.700 | Pot App/Dep VHF |
| 282.275 | Pot App/Dep UHF |
| 290.475 | Pot App/Dep UHF |
| 307.900 | Pot App/Dep UHF |
| 317.425 | Pot App/Dep UHF |
| 121.500 | Aero Emerg VHF |
| 243.000 | Aero Emerg UHF |
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