Didn't realize you were a ham Scott.. good stuff. I use a Yaesu FT60, which does a good job on AM rx It's not the fastest scanning but for a couple frequencies, it's more than good enough. Hard to beat that 20 dollar Realistic though. Dedicated old school scanners are perfect for a shop radio. 73 de N5XL VE5AEA
I am also a ham and have tried A LOT of radios and scanners on Airband. I use a Realistic Pro-2020 I picked up years ago for Airband AM reception. 73, de KF7YN
There are versions of the UV-5R that can tune AM air bands - for instance, the one I showed in the video. But they are absolute crap at it, with very poor discrimination and signal gain.
If your ELT goes off, you'll get a call from Tyndall first (and if they don't get you, they call ATC and then your home, and...) (all before the FSDO or CAP comes a callin) {ask me how I know ...} I, and a few hangar neighbors, all use Sporty's SP200s for radio traffic (FWIW)
Most of the general coverage receivers (or transmitters) has 50/25/12.5/10 kHz channels spacing (I suppose the scanners has also this channels spacing). So our (aviation) current 8.33 kHz channels spacing can work, but with some compromises about the quality of the audio. (73 de F5IBH)
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Didn't realize you were a ham Scott.. good stuff. I use a Yaesu FT60, which does a good job on AM rx It's not the fastest scanning but for a couple frequencies, it's more than good enough. Hard to beat that 20 dollar Realistic though. Dedicated old school scanners are perfect for a shop radio. 73 de N5XL VE5AEA
I am also a ham and have tried A LOT of radios and scanners on Airband. I use a Realistic Pro-2020 I picked up years ago for Airband AM reception. 73, de KF7YN
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I restore ARC RT 328 plane radios. The tray and plugs are lost so you must find one for restoration. Nothing receives better.
You could also just bolt, or mechanically fasten the antenna to your sheet metal hangar... and possibly turn your hangar into a giant antenna!
Except...the hangar is grounded, so not a great antenna.
Before you spend $20 on a Baofeng make certain it does what you want.
Out of the Box Baofeng radios don't receive AM or tune below 136 Mhz.
There are versions of the UV-5R that can tune AM air bands - for instance, the one I showed in the video. But they are absolute crap at it, with very poor discrimination and signal gain.
If your ELT goes off, you'll get a call from Tyndall first (and if they don't get you, they call ATC and then your home, and...) (all before the FSDO or CAP comes a callin) {ask me how I know ...}
I, and a few hangar neighbors, all use Sporty's SP200s for radio traffic (FWIW)
Most of the general coverage receivers (or transmitters) has 50/25/12.5/10 kHz channels spacing (I suppose the scanners has also this channels spacing). So our (aviation) current 8.33 kHz channels spacing can work, but with some compromises about the quality of the audio. (73 de F5IBH)
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