D-CALM (Do 228-101) now doing tests over the North East UK towards Leeds. On SBS FL175. Callsign “Science 01”, just called Newcastle 124.37. Towards Leeds then Cranfield.

Andy

Saw some of their flights a few days ago going out with the callsign “BMR”, so they’ve changed that too..

Andy

Just for info really (as i don’t think it’s mentioned anywhere), but the plane was N820NW. Had it on my SBS between 0934 and 0953.

Regards,
Andy

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Regards,
Andy

And did you realise that it takes an extra 3 days to paint it in those colours than regular colours ??? – think i read that on airliners.net or something !

Andy

No problem!….Happy to help!. Another thing to consider is a good aerial (outside preferably!)….mine is in the loft because it’s too difficult to get up on the apex of the house as it’s quite tall, but i’ve used Westflex 103 coax cable and it really makes a difference to using standard RG58U cable….the better quality the cable, the better the signal should be!

Regards,
Andy

Hi, in my opinion, no !. I used to own an R532 and it was brilliant !. I keep looking for these on ebay as that’s about the only place you can get them these days. I can remember pulling in stations far away with one of these and when it broke (about 15 years ago), i got the Realistic PRO2004, which still pulled in a lot, but i don’t think it was as sensitive as the R532 (but that could be psychological !!).

I currently have the BCT15 (Uniden) and i would say it’s a really sensitive scanner and doesn’t suffer from interference from other stations (like some of my Realistics did!).

The BCT15 is quite a difficult thing to get hold of as i think it’s main market is in the USA/Canada. I got mine brand new off ebay. But i think some of the other BCT’s are very similar (UBC785XLT for example at around £250 on ebay, brand new): http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Bearcat-UBC785XLT-desktop-scanner-very-latest-batch_W0QQitemZ400069111306QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_ConsumerElectronics_SpecialistRadioEquipment_SM?hash=item5d25fa2e0a&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14

BUT……some of the Unidens are hard to figure out/program. I use software called “BC Tool” which is free, to program it and it works brill in this way. You get the PC cable with the scanner anyway.

The easiest ones to program (by far!) are the Realistic ones and i would say if you’re not looking for advanced features (station names, ID tags, Close Call etc etc) then go for a Realistic PRO2006, one of the more sensitive scanners i’ve owned. They are in abundance on ebay for around the £50 mark !

Let us know how you get on !

Regards,
Andy

No problem !

Yeah, easyJet (along with many others) alter their radio callsign so it bears no resemblance whatsoever to the timetabled flight numbers !. But i would say without doubt that it was G-EZDD, that one did the EDI-BFS-EDI-BFS that day, so it has to be that one – infact that log uses GMT i’m pretty sure, so your suggested 7am ties up perfectly !. All the other EZY flights into EDI that day looked nothing like DO, OD etc !

Regards,
Andy