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Hi from the Scottish Borders
Hi from the Scottish Borders
Hi All
based in Scottish Borders I am underneath some busy flight routes, with a decent amount of military aircraft both low level and high level....Spadeadam is about 25 miles from me so I get any action going.
USAF C17, K35R and C5 seem to have a well worn path heading north over my location on a daily basis.
I track 24/7 using my pi3 and piaware with acceptable coverage 200+ miles all round apart from the north because of hills so coverage is down to 100 miles. I was watching 2 F15s earlier this evening over the North Sea but so far have not managed to find their frequency...also cant seem to catch the frequencies for cobham flights that seem to be in the same area over the north sea.
I can listen to civil aircraft down to Birmingham working into Daventry sector on VHF so thats about 200 miles....what can I expect with UHF for military are the training missions over the north sea asking to much ?
Cheers Mark
based in Scottish Borders I am underneath some busy flight routes, with a decent amount of military aircraft both low level and high level....Spadeadam is about 25 miles from me so I get any action going.
USAF C17, K35R and C5 seem to have a well worn path heading north over my location on a daily basis.
I track 24/7 using my pi3 and piaware with acceptable coverage 200+ miles all round apart from the north because of hills so coverage is down to 100 miles. I was watching 2 F15s earlier this evening over the North Sea but so far have not managed to find their frequency...also cant seem to catch the frequencies for cobham flights that seem to be in the same area over the north sea.
I can listen to civil aircraft down to Birmingham working into Daventry sector on VHF so thats about 200 miles....what can I expect with UHF for military are the training missions over the north sea asking to much ?
Cheers Mark
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Re: Hi from the Scottish Borders
Welcome, Talla, a very appropriate 'handle'. Perhaps I should have made mine 'Shapp' as I'm around twelve miles south of that report-point.
I don't have computers at home so it's frustrating when I pick up "Dragons" on my old MV5000 and can't 'heads-up' for members in the Cotswolds; usually catch them on 282.125 or 277.625.
Roger
I don't have computers at home so it's frustrating when I pick up "Dragons" on my old MV5000 and can't 'heads-up' for members in the Cotswolds; usually catch them on 282.125 or 277.625.
Roger
Re: Hi from the Scottish Borders
Cheers Roger....the plus side to no pc at home less noise or interference on the radio, i would be lost without them to run my SDRs ...Mark
Shortwave: SDRPlay RSP2 - Homemade Magnetic Loop
Airband: Uniden UBC125XLT - Homemade Ground plane
ADS-B: Raspberry Pi3 running Piaware 24/7 - Homemade Ground plane
Airband: Uniden UBC125XLT - Homemade Ground plane
ADS-B: Raspberry Pi3 running Piaware 24/7 - Homemade Ground plane
Re: Hi from the Scottish Borders
Hi Mark, welcome to FC.
Impressive range on your listening gear.
All the best
pawlee
Impressive range on your listening gear.
All the best
pawlee
Re: Hi from the Scottish Borders
Hi Mark
Welcome aboard the friendly aviation forum
Cheers
Paddyboy
Welcome aboard the friendly aviation forum
Cheers
Paddyboy
Re: Hi from the Scottish Borders
Cheers Pawlee, Paddyboy Glad I joined finding lots of useful info from trawling the posts on the site...loving the photo section also Mark
Shortwave: SDRPlay RSP2 - Homemade Magnetic Loop
Airband: Uniden UBC125XLT - Homemade Ground plane
ADS-B: Raspberry Pi3 running Piaware 24/7 - Homemade Ground plane
Airband: Uniden UBC125XLT - Homemade Ground plane
ADS-B: Raspberry Pi3 running Piaware 24/7 - Homemade Ground plane
Re: Hi from the Scottish Borders
Hi talla welcome to the forum
Re: Hi from the Scottish Borders
Cheers r6pilot
Shortwave: SDRPlay RSP2 - Homemade Magnetic Loop
Airband: Uniden UBC125XLT - Homemade Ground plane
ADS-B: Raspberry Pi3 running Piaware 24/7 - Homemade Ground plane
Airband: Uniden UBC125XLT - Homemade Ground plane
ADS-B: Raspberry Pi3 running Piaware 24/7 - Homemade Ground plane
Re: Hi from the Scottish Borders
Morning Mark, roughly where about are you, I live just east of Coldstream
Re: Hi from the Scottish Borders
Hi Iain im near Hawick
I wonder if you feed adsb to any of the sites...helps to get better MLAT coverage for the borders area especially for low flying stuff im sending to adsb exchange and FA
cheers Mark
I wonder if you feed adsb to any of the sites...helps to get better MLAT coverage for the borders area especially for low flying stuff im sending to adsb exchange and FA
cheers Mark
Shortwave: SDRPlay RSP2 - Homemade Magnetic Loop
Airband: Uniden UBC125XLT - Homemade Ground plane
ADS-B: Raspberry Pi3 running Piaware 24/7 - Homemade Ground plane
Airband: Uniden UBC125XLT - Homemade Ground plane
ADS-B: Raspberry Pi3 running Piaware 24/7 - Homemade Ground plane
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