Coningsby (D)ATIS broadcasting Sunday 19th Feb 2017

[Gary]

Is anything due in or out? Coningsby (D)ATIS broadcasting this morning. Runway 25 in use at 09.50

[Gary]

(D)ATIS still broadcasting at 17.20, odd for a Sunday. usually just says airfield closed

[woody]

Perhaps it was left transmittimg by mistake. We had the same system at Valley. Had to be turned off when airfield closed. If not it would continue transmitng. One clue would be to check the ATIS code and time recording was made(assuming that is in the broadcast).

[woody]

Oh and just another thought with it being a QRA station I guess ATC etc are still manned but at minimal level so not sure how the ATIS is broadcast with these things in mind. Been almost 10 years since I left he mob so things may well have changed.

[Gary]

Woody

I thought it might have been a mistake, but it was updated a number of times during the day, with the latest NATO colour code and regional hectopascal etc. Still broadcasting now but not been updated since 15.15. Guess it could be a new thing they are doing

[reheat module]

Just to wrap up the initial query, was there any movement following the broadcast activity?

[Gary]

Nothing happened while I was near the scanner mate, not sure if any of the locals heard anything

[baz1]

i have heard a few times on a sunday but strangely nothing from Waddington I get coningsby loud and clear but Waddington cant even get one bar on scanner and I live about four and a half miles away as the crow flies never used to be like it before the upgrade work was done!?

[Alan425]

Baz1 - with regard to Waddington's ATIS, it was loud and clear when Waddington re-opened in November/December, but currently I can only pick up a very garbled and unintelligible signal (and then only with the squelch turned down to zero), and I am only two miles from Waddington. Does anyone know if they have changed the frequency used?

Alan

[baz1]

that's just what I'm getting Alan did a search yesterday up and down but did not pick atis up on any other Frq


Baz