Shortwave spotting

Leo · Post by **Leo** » 13 Jun 2003, 12:54

Hello all,

Yesterday evening 21:26h.(local time) I heard World 173 in contact with Stockholm Radio. The plane departed at EBBR and began on his atlantic cross. According to it's selcal it was this one:

http://www.planepictures.net/netshow.cgi?65969

Just to say planespotting by shortwave is also a very interesting hobby.

Leo

meerkat · Post by **meerkat** » 13 Jun 2003, 17:50

Is it OK to monitor shortwave airband here in Belgium?

I know that monitoring U/VHF is illegal but what about ACARS? Is this also a problem as I have never seen an ACARS report for Belgium?

Meerkat

Sabena_690 · Post by **Sabena_690** » 13 Jun 2003, 19:14

Silly that scanners are not allowed here...

No idea about ACARS.

If you want, you can listen to AMS ATC via http://www.atcbox.com

Regards
Frederic

Leo · Post by **Leo** » 13 Jun 2003, 21:25

Hi,

Shotwavelistening is not illegal in Belgium.
Maybe your parents or grandparents still have an old radio where you can here shortwave transmissions on.
Airplanes, ships, oilplatforms etc. are in the Utility section of SW listening.
Off course the conversations you here are for your ears only, witch means you may not bring the conversations in public.
If you want to know more about this, take a look at

www.dxa.be

Unfortunately at the moment there are problems with the website, but you can always take a look later.
I don't know if acars is allowed.

Leo

Avro · Post by **Avro** » 13 Jun 2003, 22:46

If you want, you can listen to AMS ATC via http://www.atcbox.com

It may sound funny but I went on the site and didn't find where to listen to AMS ATC.

But I had a great time listening to Atlanta ATC and Boston Approach.

Greetz
Chris
:drink:

meerkat · Post by **meerkat** » 13 Jun 2003, 22:48

SW monitoring is quite popular in UK as Oceanic traffic, which will cross the UK, can be heard and identified (by SELCAL) many hours before the aircraft can be seen. Listeners now use modern equipment capable of SSB receiving which many old radios are not equipped to deal with, causing transmissions to be garbled.

Because of the way shortwaves travel monitoring such stations as Santa Maria and Cairo is regularly possible , so some quite exotic stuff can be heard.

Meerkat

Post by **luchtzak** » 13 Jun 2003, 22:54

Chris,

www.atcbox.com is a very nice website but the Amsterdam-streams don't work very often, the server is stored on a hot place under the roof of a house (op de zolder) and it crashes very often. The guy who needs to reset the server is also away very often. Also you need to be registered before you can hear the streams (if they work) If you surf while-and-then to the website it might work.

ciao,

Bart
:rock:

Avro · Post by **Avro** » 13 Jun 2003, 22:56

Bart,

Thanks for the quick reply

Chris

Sabena_690 · Post by **Sabena_690** » 14 Jun 2003, 12:14

Chris: if you open the page, you will see 3 links (above, they are the first links you will see).

Press on one of them (tower for example), and there you go!

For info: you need RealPlayer.

Regards
Frederic

Leo · Post by **Leo** » 15 Jun 2003, 17:49

Hello guy's,
For those who want's to take a look, the shortwave site www.dxa.be is online again.
There was a little server breakdown.

Gretings,
Leo

Leo · Post by **Leo** » 07 Jul 2003, 12:32

Hello guy's,
Just heard SLR OO-SLS (selcal MRDS) starting his oceanic cross as Dutch Caribian 2000 probably to a very exotic place!

Leo