Northern NH, can I hear any Aircraft?

[skydmark1]

Hello guys,

I'm new to the forum, but not really new to radios and scanners, been doing it since I was about 15. I've never gotten serious about it till now though and I have a question regarding Air channels. I'm hungry to listen to whatever I can pick up on my scanner, and I get a fair amount of commercial aircraft flying over our area. However, I'm about 75 miles from the nearest commercial airport.

What chances if any do I have of hearing anything, and where do I search for the frequencies? I'm in Littleton, NH which is about 1 hour south of the canadian border. Right now I'm running an older Uniden Sportcat SC150 handheld with just the rubber ducky. Gonna pick up a Discone antenna after Xmas though and mount it outside.

Thanks,
Jason

 

[markinillinois]

Jason:

Unless you're turned-on by listening to Piper's and Cessna's at a small airport doing touch and go's, you'll hear far more interesting conversations by listening to high altitude aircraft flying overhead talking to ARTCC facilities. Also, scan the 126 frequencies in the 128.85-132.0 range and you'll hear lots of good stuff too on a daily basis. Virtually all I've ever listened to on scanners has been high altitude ARTCC sectors above 24,000 feet and the airline ops frequencies in the frequency range

Mark Holmes
Marion, IL

 

[jimlawrence]

Boston Center covers our area. Try 135.7 and 118.825. 135.7 is busy with aircraft 24/7. You'll hear high altitude traffic on 118.825. Once you get used to the chatter on those two, you'll hear the aircraft start reading back the other frequencies. Not only will aircraft be passed off to other sectors of Boston center, you'll also hear aircraft being handed off to Montreal center. And, you may actually hear an occasional aircraft headed into Whitefield.

Happy listening!

 

[skydmark1]

hey, thanks man I'll give those a try. Where are you from btw....I"m in Littleton

 

[GrayJeep]

Be sure to include 123.45 and 122.75 which are the official civil air-to-air channels. Sometimes you'll catch chit-chat between crews or the occasional flight of 2 homebuilt aircraft going somewhere for breakfast.

and 121.5 known as Guard. This is the emergency frequency and gets most of its traffic as an "oops" when the radio has been set there to listen and the crew transmits there instead of where they thought they were.

 

[w0fg]

Whitefield and Franconia both use 122.8 for Unicom. You should hear a bit of activity there too.

 

[kennyblues]

At various times through the day/night you might be able to pick up some Milcom, There is some mid-air refueling going on over NH as well as the VT-ANG training. For some freqs check out;
http://www.scannewengland.net/wiki/index.php/New_England_Milcom

 

[ka3jjz]

We have Boston Center's frequencies in our database. Ignore the ATA100 listings as they're frequently out of date- scroll past them and you'll start to see the various RCAG (both civilian and mil) listed

http://www.radioreference.com/apps/db/?aid=2248

73 Mike

 

[aerofreq]

Jason-
You are probably in a pretty good location to be able to pick up a lot of Canadian air traffic, as well. Try
132.55, 128.22, 133.22 and 123.92 from the Montreal center. Also, try 120.35 (Burlington RCAG), and
128.05 (St. Albans, Me. RCAG). I've heard a lot of hand-offs to and from Canada on those, as well as
135.7 and 118.82.
Also, you should be able to get some air traffic from/to Logan Apt., and Manchester, on their northern
departure/arrival routes. Try 134.7 (Lebanon RCAG), and 128.32 (Lake George, NY RCAG).
Scott W.
Manchester, NH