Monitoring VHF Airband Aviation Frequencies at the Airport 

Great video! One comment though, I used SkyVector to look up the frequencies for my local airport, Ronaldsway, Isle of Man (EGNS) and they were years out of date! The approach and tower frequencies changed in December 2014 but SkyVector are still showing the old ones.

Your series is really well done. Your information is presented so that novices can grasp the essence of what you are conveying. I have been monitoring aircraft since the late 1960s when I discovered the air band on my mom's Panasonic radio. I grew up in the flight path of ORD (O'Hare International Airport), a local Naval Air Station, and a regional airport (PWK) so there was literally aircraft over my house all day long everyday. Now, like you, I use a dongle (somewhat successfully) as well as a multitude of scanners to do my listening. Its never boring to me. Thanks for opening up the hobby to others.

What a great video - really informative and well put together. Thank you.

Very clear and useful information with included links. Thanks again for the nice video. I look forward to episode 3!

Great video and series, very useful information. Well done and thank you !

Another great video. Keep up your great work informing us about this great hobby

Wow! I had no idea how complicated air radio is.

Really enjoying these Frugal, I monitor the airways around Vancouver with an SBS3 radarbox, an AirNav radarbox and a Raspberry/SDR feeding FR24, and a Uniden scanner.

Another excellent video, its clear you put a lot of time, effort and research into these. You are becoming the go too channel for SDR and scanner related information, well done! As Dick Tracy would say 6-2 are even over and out!

This is really helpful! I’ve been listening to my local airport, but I haven’t really known how to identify what sort of role each transmission is playing, so this is really helpful for that!

This is a great series ! Loving every minute 👍

Absolutely brilliant video great information for beginners.

Excellent video. I live near the Atlanta airport and this information is very helpful.

Thank you for this! Will try to listen on aviation frequencies near my area. ❤️

That was really informative! Thanks!

Great video. Good information. Thanks

Very informative video, thank you!

Thank you for a really good and informative video

excellent vidio and fun information....thank you!!!

Thanks! This is one area that I have not explored much on my SDR, even though I have heard some via scanners.

Very useful. Thank you.

Great video

great video thanks

i've been using skyvector for a while, it's an amazing site, specially bc i'm from north africa and coming across those maps for my place is impossible

Loving these, thank you so much! I've been listening to London FIS recently, and can receive aircraft from Cumbria to Kent. But what I find interesting is that I can hear the Controller too, from right here in Brum, while more local ground-to-air is completely inaccessible to me! Why is that, do you think? Keep up the quality work!

Good stuff, I'm still in ;) Going for a trip to Brisbane with the kit soon to have a nosy around. I'm a bit out in the sticks at home but my PiAware is picking up traffic 150nm out so that's pretty good.

I love listening to military Airband

In the days before the internet, a good way to find frequencies was to be near an airport and search the 121.xxx MHz range. All airports in the USA (and probably all of North America) have ground control in that range. Once you find ground control, monitor it and they will shortly hand off aircraft to the tower frequency. Tower will hand off to departure/approach, and departure will hand off to the next frequency. I did this many times when I traveled for work and spent a night at the airport hotel. I didn't know Laguardia had 3 ground frequencies!

Another great Video, looking forward to the next in the series. So here in Aust out "Main" Airport ( YMML) many of the "Main" frequencies are re transmitted ( re broadcast ) either on the same frequency or a different frequency many 10's of, 100's of or in some cases even 1000 of km's away from the airport as they cover huge areas of Aust so for exzample if you look up Australian Air Traffic Control in wikipedia you will see the following. (I'd post the url but I know RU-vid blocks posts with url's) Melbourne Centre The Melbourne ( YMML) FIR consists of all other Australian airspace outside the Brisbane FIR. This includes Victoria, Tasmania, southern New South Wales including Sydney, most of South Australia and the southern half of Western Australia. It also contains the Australian Indian and Southern Ocean airspace. Apart from international flights arriving from the Indian Ocean, most international flights will pass through Brisbane Centre first. However, as the FIR contains six of the eight capital cities, a very large portion of domestic flights are controlled from Melbourne Centre. Regards Wayne.

Great video! I'm about 20 miles from the Edmonton International but I can't receive the ATIS signal on my RTL-SDR. I'd love to learn more about optimizing my setup. Are you using any filters to improve reception?

I'm about 6 or 7 miles from a small general aviation airport, so I'll have to see what I can listen in on from there.

Thank you for all the videos! I am new to the world of ham / SD radio. I have learned quite a bit from your channel specifically. And of course after I finally can decode and listen to my towns police, dpw and others the freaking SDR# software $hits the digital bed🤣 now it constantly freezes and crashes. I've tried it on both my HP laptops with i5. I noticed the most recent download for sdr# is different from the one I downloaded 2 months ago. And alot of people are complaining about it. Any tips or recommendations how to get a functional version? So bummed... I spent probably 100 hours learning and customizing to my use and just when I get the hang of it and get my new wideband discone antenna SDR# craps out😂 apologies for the long message and being off topic with he video . Figure better chance of response than sending it to you on an 8 month old video. Cheers!

I like to listen to distant airports. I can here planes at 38,000 feet from 400 km away. I always monitor "guard" at 121.5 All aircraft monitor guard frequency at all times. 123.450 is plane to plane communications.

Hi i want to ask, is it possible to hear airport comms in this range : distance 68 KM, my Elevation 40 M, airport elevation 10 M, and im using Dipole Antenna.

Once I got curious for science to hear frs walkie talkie transmissions from a plane and booted up a walkie to listen only and was surprised to hear kids playing on frs walkie talkies far down on earth and amazed of what all I could hear all the way from space on nothing but a cheap amazon toyish walkie talkie! Makes me want to get one of those walkman type multiband radios that are recievers that can do VHS and UHF and listen to it on plane some day and not have to worry about accidentally TXing like on a regular walkie talkie.

What do you think is the best mobile antenna for out and about.

Nice, another fellow Canuck channel. I am an hour away from CYOW AND CYUL. Just a bit too far to hear coms. I have a FR24 rx here.

I have question for you, this discone antenna from vid IT is only RX antenna od also could be for TX?

is the flamingo fm filter a must if wanting to monitor air band? i have an airport a few miles away

What airport is that landing footage at the end from? I think I recognize it from Microsoft Flight Simulator!

Broadswood Antennas can i put them in my suitcase

Does anyone have experience with the FlightAware dongles? Is there anything about the FlightAware dongles that would make them a bad choice as a second dongle for trunked system monitoring?

I live close to the airport but I get a fair bit of static noise

Hi there. I am relatively new to airband radios and have had a Uniden ezi33xlt with a 40cm antenna for about 6 months. I live roughly 13 miles from LHR in a straight line and do not pick much up at all on 118.5(tower) or any of the other LHR frequencies for that matter. There are quite a lot of trees around and I don’t live in a very elevated area. Is that why I don’t pick much up? Would you recommend a different radio with a longer range than my current one?

I am a real novice. I want to know HOW do I get this voice and not what it is. It is assumed that readers know how to get voice. I only get crackles. I am not adjusting to the right parameter. I have the right frequency, tried WFM, played with gain, nothing.

But the Earth is flat 🤔 . 🙈🤣

1:14 Proof that the earth is not flat =

No knowledgeable person uses 'Over and Out' consecutively as they conflict.

Good information, location Chennai India VOMM. Flightradar24 nod F-VOMM2. THANKS

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