How to use Frequency Scanner to Search UHF MilAir in 2.3 seconds in SDR# using AirSpy R2 

Great video! Thanks for your educational material. I’m binge watching your content.

Fantastically helpful. Just what I was looking for. Thank you!

Great information. Please keep doing the videos.

This just helped tremendously! Thanks!

Informative video. Thumbs up.

Although not shown on your video you can also mute the birdies on the bottom display. Select the birdie that is causing an issue and the blue bar will turn red. You may need to zoom in to easily select the troublesome frequency. Great channel and information videos.

will you be doing a more in depth video on how to use the scanner , ie what the bottom arrows actually do and some other set up functions ? ,also my scanner doesnt always re start i have to click on the bottom arrow ,

Great video. I live just north of London and can pick up the ATIS information voice audio from RAF Northolt on 299.8mhz. It seems to continually broadcast in daylight hours, so it's useful if you can get an antenna up high enough and you are within 50 miles of that point so that you can tell that your system is set up and working OK for these frequencies. There may well be UHF ATIS broadcasts for other bases around the country. I imagine Brize Norton must have one and for people in East Anglia and Lincolnshire, there seem to be a lot of bases in those areas. The latest antenna I made for this frequency involved some short strips of wire bound around an empty drinks bottle, stuck on top of a length of bamboo rods, bound together with gaffer tape. You can definitely have a lot of frugal fun! You may want to consider experimenting with TV /Sat antenna amps, both in-line amplifiers and masthead amps. Often the cheaper the better, as they have no strong bandpass filtering and you get great amplification up to ADSB frequencies and beyond. I've received the Inmarsat for our part of the world like this. My antenna for that was 12 small pieces of linked copper foil with a copper foil ground plane.

This helped a lot, I can get mine to scan the mil band but also it does ham, fm, marine, air band etc, how do I turn those other areas off?

Great video. If I want to change frequency I have to stop the Airspy software , change the hZ and push the play button again. Most other functions also require this procedure, using SDR Sharp with Airspy.Also cannot hear FM stations , they show up on the waterfall but the hiss goes away when I click on the frequency. SDR Sharp Studio V1.0.0.1830 win 10

I love this video, could you recommend a good AirSpy R2 antenna? I'm mostly interested in VHF and UHF bands so would want something to cover that. Thank you

Hi.. Watched this tutorial which showed me how to set up the scan function on my Airspy R2. Is there any expantion as to what the yellow and red height adjustable bars do and is there any particular level for them to be set at? Is there anyway to scan saved memories too, like you can with SDR Uno? Thanks

Great video, have now managed to set up my Airspy to work as such. Is there any way to get an output of frequencies found other than by copy/paste of the list window? Looking for a realtime output.

Just got one myself you really don’t miss much when they run at those speeds.

Do you have a video on the Frequency Scanner Analyser you had on the bottom? I have no clue how it works. I played around with it and lost my band with of scanning. What do the up/down arrows on the left & right side do? Thanks...Rich

I finally set this up. Can you explain the Plugin Visualization panel? What do the red and yellow up/down arrows do?

Clocked my Icom R30 scanning the band in 25 seconds

Great video as a very long time radio nut inc'g amateur in Aust who due to life ( work, family etc) getting in the road has had many years away from the hobby & so just about to go out & spend some $$ on an SDR. So question, based on your 225 to 380 search can you go and leave it to its own devices ( unattended) and it log any finds whilst you are gone for you to review upon your return. Also you were saying to enter the frequency search useing ( commas) 225,000,000 but tue display showed full stops 225.000.000 Just after clarifaction. Thx Rgs Wayne.

Very good video! Because of this I went ahead and purchased an Airspy R2 (I already have the Airspy HF+, but realized it doesn’t cover UHF). Because it scans the band so quickly, and aviation comms are so brief, do you know if there is a good recording app/program that will automatically record the audio, when the squelch is broken, then stop recording once the transmission stops? I am trying to avoid missed manually recorded audio due slow reactions, and also avoid long audio clips of silence punctuated by brief 5 second recordings. Thanks much, love the channel!👍😊

I've been having a problem where it takes a couple runs through the frequency range before it stops on a frequency that has been active for the last 10 seconds or so (verified with another radio). In other words, it can miss transmissions that last longer than the scan time. Are there any settings I need to adjust?

I'm totally new to SDR, and my only interests are (Civil & Military Air bands) what I could start with is …"Airspy R2" + "SDR#" + "Frequency Scanner Plugin", (am I correct so far ?) ...... initially I will be going for an antenna that I can put outside a window (on a shelf) I need some recommendations for that...TIA.

I'm just setting up my Airspy R2 and this was an extremely helpful video. I see a SNR meter and what looks like a bandwidth meter on your demo. I installed the Community Package with Plugins but I'm not seeing anyway to show those on my display. Any help?

Do you have a vid I may have overlooked, doing the configuration/settings of the scanner?

There are several frequency scanners and i am not sure witch one you was using.Could you supply a link to the scanner you was using thanks

Would you be able to add any insight on the scan speed if this were used with a mobile device with less computing power than a computer (such as a cell phone). I would like to have a handheld sdr setup since I move it from vehicle to vehicle when going to watch the jets. As of now I use a Uniden BC365CRS and a Quansheng UV-K6. Which works, but scanning the whole milair band in under 3 seconds, or even 10 seconds would be a massive improvement! Thanks!

What are the red & yellow up/down arrows for on the bottom? Thanks.

you can use exponential expressions as well ie. 255e6

Why is your scanning so fast compared to mine is it that fft thing?

Does it stop on a hit like a scanner does? If so, is there a way to keep it there for a second or does it move on again right away?

I can't figure out what the green adjustment arrows on the lower right do within the Frequency Scanner plug-in. I figured out that the red adjustment arrows on the lower left seem to be the "squelch" or signal strength threshold, but can't figure out what the other green one is for. Anyone know?

ive set it up as per your video some of the options you mention dont pop up on the menu screen , how come i dont get the bottom part with the X and the arrows ?

Any idea why I have no SCAN button? My radio works fine and I can do everything you show, but I have no SCAN button (it's grayed out). Strange. Thanks!

So am I right in saying this is quicker at searching but slower at scanning saved channels compared to a scanner?

Is there any way to scan presets with AirSpy?

SDR Play RSP DX can Cover from 1 Khz to 2 Ghz and it's works very well in Receiving Military Air Craft Band,

I have the latest version of that software with my air spy, and I I have all those plug-ins, but nothing within the plug-ins that you say to disable show up on mine I have frequency scanner I also don’t have a delete button on mine so I cannot delete nuance frequencies.

Hi! Could you, please, help me cancel all locked out frequencies (I mean to how to unlock frequencies that have been locked out) on the newer version of this scanner plug-in. I don't know how to do it. Many thanks in advance for your insight.

What annt. did you use ?

Don't forget 137 to 155.975 am 25 kHz especially 137 to 143 some military air and contractors there

Just tried this and no luck. Software is totally different layout wise. I’m also using a NooElec Smartee v2 and I can’t see it listed. Any help is very welcome.

This is cool and all but I can't get it to stop on frequencies consistently. It just runs past them most times even on constant signals like NOAA weather.

i think you should update the video withe new version of SDRSHARP & the PLUGINS. i'm just saying, thankyou...

NIce vid, My Hackrf is doing this in 0.9sec but not for long than sdr studio stops working.... lol So unstable..

Doesn’t give me an option

These frequencies, including all military, are great for "pirate" comm's since FCC and their ilk, don't bother these frequency users unless official users complain.

Why are u stopping at 380? Milair uhf needs upto 399.975 your mudding 20 mhz ok sone tetra there too in uk nit many uhf airband, along with 137 to 155.975 am 25 kHz

4 minutes until we get to the info... 4:07

You're going to miss radio calls jumping around like this. How do you receive the entire 220-380 band instantaneously? Use 36 radios?

Airspy is trash. $25 rtl dongle works just as good

You need to scan up to 399.975 or you will miss some of the mil Band.

One thing I have noticed with both the NESDR Smart and the RTL-SDR.com V3 dongles. They get extreemly hot when scanning. I am thinking of bolting them to a large heatsink and fit a fan. As I cant see them lasting long at such high temperatures. Does the AirSpy R2 get very hot when scanning?