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Home air band listening.
I'd like to improve my air band listening at home. I'd like to be able
to capture ATC ground transmissions from an airport 15 miles away (DTW) and ATIS from DTW and YIP (also about 15 miles). I'm in a two story house in a typical suburban setting on ground about 200' higher than the airports in question. I'm going to install a base station antenna in my attic (outside is not doable) and run coax down to the basement. Sometime later I may run it into my den. I'd like to put a TV coax amplifier in the system to help. Receiver will be my handheld, but later I might use an illegal (transmitter) 360 navcom (Com 11?) if I can find one that works at a giveaway price. Questions: - Anybody got a rig like this? Suggestions? - Should I put RF amp up in the attic, near the antenna, or in the basement, near the receiver? - Any watchouts? Rich |
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