Absolutely Fantastic I can smell the Jet A, the photography was awesome, It reminds me of when I was alot younger and Mom worked at Hi Lift Helicopters in Plymouth Mi and I would hang out during the summer, I was able to go up with some of the pilots now and again......What a great time!!!!
Amazing views. I miss Vegas area, always loved the vibe and feel. Don't like the strip life, but the town just has a certain character you don't find in other places. Same way I feel about Havasu. Has its own vibe.
I would love to know the cords to this. I have looked the last 2 hours on sat maps trying to find it. I even tried to look back at past flights and I would love to look at the area in sat maps and see if there was anything in the area. I did randomly find something else that looks squarish on Apple Maps in a drainage at 35.89835° N, 114.73598° W. Probably just a shadow hard to tell on my end. On a side note, you get around. I used to live by Tonopah NV and saw you have been around there, and currently am by Riverside, CA, and you have been there too. One day I want to fly in a 500, amazing bird. My dream is to go up the river around Havasu and up to Topock Gorge.
Great video - I'm about to re-create this flight in both MSFS and X-Plane using VR, the MD500E and the awesome collective I just got along with my cyclic and pedals.
Always enjoy your video. Here’s an interesting story about number audio system coded messages. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-cfv6nm4ykLY.htmlsi=XgaFVZfqrkpQTct- That last transmission I heard something about sending shooters to the roof.
FM broadcast band is quite close to VHF AM comms. Sounds to me like an intermodulation spur from an FM broadcast transmitter. Likely this is an active site.
That’s a live fm radio station You are I’m near field and it was roasting the front end of the avradio It happens all the time near high power stations and you where writhin about 1 air mile of the TX site
You experienced an event called “mixing” of radio signals in your receiver. This can happen when you are near a high-power transmitter such as at that tower site. There appear to be dozens of antennas visible at that site. Many of those repeaters and transmitters are most likely active. We know one is for sure based on your consistent and repeatable mixing event. Mixing is a common occurrence however, I’d be a little more concerned about getting too close to a high-powered transmitter and having the unusually high-powered signal interfere with the helo’s FADEC or other control system. Remember, RF leaves no fingerprints. Great content, great video, super great helicopter!!!
I was a comm specialist in the Army. Something obviously isn't decommissioned there. It's still quite active for that to happen. Yeah, you're just getting lit up by RF when you passed through a beam and it's bleed over. And the comms I heard sounded military and obviously unsecured and in that area it's probably range control somewhere. Marines or Navy I'd guess.
Thanks for this input! Clearly the first two noises were some sort of 'bleed over' from a beam or something as I crossed through. The last one is most likely military as you stated. There is a lot of military airspace close to where I was. Thanks again! Todd
That would be amazing and unfortunately I will miss it. Also, that would be a very long flight as I am based in Las Vegas. I hope you have a great spot to watch. Thanks for the comment!
Noted! Getting the balance right with the audio is so difficult. Its trial and error because I don't have a way to adjust it while editing. I appreciate it.
@@helihaus I saw telecom engineer working on it and accidentally sticking his head in the transmission path in close range, now in life time physical therapy. Stay out of it 😏🙈
Very common. you're super close to the transmitter. Nothing anormal on this. Happens when you drive very close to radio towers and suddenly you're getting all the channe;s on your car radio. It's just a sign that you are close to a strong radio source.
It almost sounded like the company out of Vegas that does the shooting from the helicopters. If he is monitoring "fingers" they could be using that for their coms and Baker area is not that far from where they go shoot.
I was once parked at an airport parking lot and somehow a private phone conversation came over my car radio… I just sat there awkwardly listening to what seemed to be a husband and wife talking about what to get for dinner. Never could determine if it was cellphone based or, if I was picking up a 2.4 ghz wireless phone somewhere nearby…So strange.
You're flying directly through a point to point microwave antenna beam. Or an AM broadcast radio relay. Those TD-2 towers used to be the "internet" in the US before there even was an internet. Heart of the At&T long distance telephone data system. In places where you want cell data but can't easily lay fiberoptic they still use the site to site microwave antennas like this. The towers you flew past first are a mix of old (probably discontinued) TD-2 horn, newer Site to Site microwave antennas, and cellular antennas. The wires to your headset are probably acting like an antenna and are attenuating the signal. Same thing really as how old school GSM text messages used to cause home speakers to buzz before getting a text or call. Shielded cables or a ferrite bead on your headset cable would act as an inductor and blocks hi frequencies, while still letting your analog audio lo frequencies pass.
Dang!!! DF for the win! Thanks for this great infomation. This is why the internet and people are amazing. I believe in science and physics and your answer checks out. I really appreciate the input from someone who knows a bunch about this stuff. Makes me want to back and check it out in a Faraday Suit. Cheers! Thanks for the great comments! Todd
Came here to say this. As soon as I listened to the intro, I figured it was probably between microwave. I was up at an old set of the huge repeater ones that are the size of about 4 billboards outside of Goldfield, NV. Amazing views up there. There is also another set of them on Brock Man outside Tonopah. They and long decommissioned for those. Some of the stuff on those towers are still used today. Like the microwave horns on the top.
You are flying through or in close proximity to an amplified radio signal. When doing so, your radios, although tuned to a certain frequency, are being overwhelmed by the signal from the towers and it's signal is bleeding over onto the frequency you are tuned to. When I was a kid, a long time back, we only had 3 main TV channels, all VHF, and we lived close to an interstate. Truck drivers would buy amplifiers, mostly illegal by FCC standards, to boost their CB signal to get greater range. Bigger the amps, the further you can transmit. Anyway, sometimes one would go by with a big enough amps to cause a bleed over on the TV. You could hear every word they said, on the TV, good or bad. Also when i was a kid, I had a Panasonic radio/tape deck. The TV antenna was right outside my bedroom window. There was an old cable that my dad had left connected to the top of the 30' outside pole. I experimented with it and found i could attach it to my radio antenna and pick up several more AM stations with the radio, and the local FM stations would come in on several different places on the dial, other than their assigned frequencies, because of the amplified signal i was introducing to the radio.
@rc300xs bleedover from a radio transmission antenna. If you read further in the comments some have explained it in different ways but to make a long story short this guy is flying his hellos right next to high wattage broadcast antennas. Your going to get bleedover
The two tones I heard in the first sound was a “Roger-Beep” when a ham radio operator lets go of the mic. So I would say that there’s a ham radio repeater up there. I don’t see any solar panels so us tax payers are paying for the station. The other “shooter” was from military aircraft radio. Wow! Lots of interesting bands up there to listen to!
Those signals possibly coming from the tower with long sticks of omnidirectional antennas next to the salmon coloured small building. Possibly they're high power public safety radio repeaters VHF or UHF band. Skirts, harmonics of their high power transmitter outputs may interfere into your VHF air band radio to trigger its squelch to open. Sometimes Air traffic Control authorities also put transmitters in remote mountain tops to cover wide areas. Love your channel. Cheers from Turkey
When you're that close to a transmitter, you don't need an amplifier. Those white drum shapes on the towers have concave microwave antennas inside. You're flying right through the tightly focused beams. If you could see the microwave energy it would look like blinding bright spotlights coming from the towers. Did you feel a little warmer flying through those?
@@operationscomputer1478 I’ll bet those reflectors are decommissioned yes. The ray domes may still be in use, I have lots of them still being used at my sites in the 7800mhz - 8600mhz range, dual feed horn, 4 radios per antenna, 2 vertical, 2 horizontal and obviously separate frequencies for each polarity and XPIC. Anything higher in the E-band millimeter range uses a newer dish.
That sounds like a broadcast station strong enough to infiltrate your audio system. It can be heard on multiple harmonics of the transmitter and when you get close like you are, the harmonics will overpower the front end of your radios. I do believe that some microwave sites are still active and some are being used for scientific research and signal propagation tests.
That is definitely something that should be reported to the FCC as they take air traffic interference very seriously…I work for a cable company and we spend 3 months every year driving every mile of our cable to insure our system doesn’t interfere with aircraft
Those ride outs are supposed to be done monthly. I once found a 100 microvolt leak @ near a country airport in nc that got fixed that day. 6 ft down and 25 ft across to repair
Hey, I live in AZ. I've found some really cool Indian ruins I haven't been able to Dirtbike to. Would be cool to have you check out. Not sure how to PM on here tho... got another source of contact?
It sounds like a famous radio 📻 signal called the waterfall .. its a set radioband that is full of noise of somekind musical , that stops people using that exact frequency in case of emergency, for emergency use broadcast
Yeah there's another one too called the alarm clock or something similar which plays a clock ⏰ ticking and every so often warning ⚠️ sirens , I've only learnt this recently from a radio enthusiast in the UK Andy Kirby has a RU-vid channel
You’re living my dream. My fantasy is to own a helicopter and explore the US West. If you could use an ex Navy Helicopter Pilot please take me with you
