Flying R/C aircraft near atc zones.

there were worries about the model possiably hitting the windshield and cracking it a bird strike would be bad enough but some fool with a model plane would definently do some damage

and i beleive it would be the same charge as those idiots with the super lasers that sit at major airports and point them at jets and other aircraft (including on one occasion a police helicopter) during takoff and landing got when they were caught

The same brainless metality that has happened with morans near Luton airport. They had a hand held 2 way airband radio.(the sort PPL pilots use as a back up radio) They was transmiting bogus ATC instructions to inbound airliners, and at other times swearing and abusing the pilots.

My first airband radio was also a WIN 108. The reception on vhf was fantastic. I could track aircraft out of Heathrow as they flew up the North sea. This was from my front room in a built up area in north London. When I got a mvt-7100, from the house in the loft I could only pick up aircraft about 10 miles away. But when you got clear of the built up area it came into its own. The rule is if you want to listen to airband get a scanner for airband only, like the mvt-225.

Bomber command could not hit targets like individual factories, not until later in the war, at night. With the advent of GEE, OBOE, H2S, target marking, Pathfinders, and Master Bombers, bombing concentration improved. But the aim of the raid was still to disrupt or destroy the workforce. Factory dipspersal, prefabrication, and underground production negated the effects of the bomber offensive.The most vunrable part of the war machine was the workforce. The bomber offensive was offical goverment policy. Harris was doing the job he was given. He did it to the best of his abalities. Intrestingly Harris spent part of early RAF career, striving to improve daylight bombing, when on ‘Empire policing’ duties in the middle east. Bombing warring tribes and their villages, suposedly after a warning that was going to happen. I have seen this part of RAF history denergrated in the press also. Aparently after some villages was hit with no warning.

I OWN 2 WIDE BAND SCANNERS. A MVT 7100 AND A MVT 9000. THEY EACH CAN STORE 1000 FREQUENCYS. I USE THE MVT 7100 FOR MILLITARY AIRBAND AND THE MVT 9000 FOR CIVIL AIRBAND AND HF. THEY ARE POCKET SCANNERS BUT I USE THEM AS BOTH HOMEBASE AND MOBILE.(IN MY POCKET OR ON BELT CLIP) WHEN MOBILE OR AT AIRSHOW OR AIRFIELD IT IS BEST TO USE EAR OR HEADPHONES. BEST RECEPTION AT HOME IS VIA AERIALS SET UP IN MY LOFT. I HAVE A TUNED UHF AERIAL THAT IS PARTLY HOME MADE FEEDING INTO ONE COAX THEN INTO THE SCANNER OF CHOICE(MVT 7100 IS BETTER ON UHF) I HAVE THE SCANNER PLUGGED VIA AN AUDIO LINE, INTO A VOICE ACTIVATED TAPE RECORDER.THE TAPE RECORDER IS ON A TIMER (SO I CAN SET IT ALL UP AND LEAVE IT RUNNING WITHOUT WAKING THE WHIFE! WHEN IM ON AN EARLY START). AS I WORK LONG HOURS I FIND IT A GREAT WAY TO ENJOY MY HOBBY. ON UHF I CAN PICK UP AIRCRAFT OPERATING 150 MILES FROM MY LOCATION. I HAVE A HIGH GAIN TUNED AERIAL FOR VHF AND A PARTLY HOME MADE HF AERIAL FEEDING INTO THE SAME COAX.(IT WORKS FINE)ON VHF I CAN PICK UP AIRCRAFT WORKING WITH ATC OVER THE NORTH SEA,OVER SCOTLAND, AND AIRCRAFT OVER IRELAND OR WORKING DUBLIN ATC.I CAN PICK UP THE CONTROLERS ON UHF AND VHF FROM THE NEARBY ATC TRANSMITERS. ON HF DAY TIME I CAN PICK UP SHANWICK OCEANIC CONTROL AND AIRCRAFT OVER THE ATLANTIC. AT NIGHT I CAN PICK UP GANDER AND NEW YORK OCEANIC CONTROL AND AIRCRAFT OVER THE ATLANTIC. AZORES OCEANIC IS PARTICULARY LOUD AND CLEAR. IAN ALLAN HAS PUBLISHED A BOOK BY GRAHAM DUKE CALLED ‘AIRBAND RADIO GUIDE’ IT HAS A GUIDE TO AIRBAND USE, A GUIDE TO BUYING A GOOD AIRBAND RADIO, AND USEFULL FREQUENCY GUIDE(CHECK WHEN YOUR EDITION WAS PUBLISHED) AERONAUTICAL CHARTS, RADIO COVERAGE MAPS AND MORE. A GOOD BOOK TO GET YOU STARTED.

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