WA Radio Scanner Users' Group

I heard Perth Approach yesterday ask Rescue 65 to keep an eye out for 'Huey traffic', a helicopter doing power line cleaning.

Let's see if I got this right this time...

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Went down to the Esplamade (near the Bell Tower) and yep, the chopper was there. Got to see everything up close, chatted to the pilot - even sat in the pilot's seat!

Some Navy activity today on 132.5, and the Garden Island CTAF on 121.0.

Some interesting activity on the UHF airband today.

292.6 and 134.6 cranked up yesterday for the first time in a while.

A new frequency in use today: 265.1. Sounds like it might be the RSAF.

You can also try 119.5, 119.7, 133.1, 134.6 and 134.8. These ones don't usually crank up on a weekend, though: they train Monday to Friday then take weekends off.

Being that far north puts you closer to Pearce.

118.3 Tower
130.2 Approach
135.9 Departures

Interested in aviation, Mr Benz?

Scanner Recorder's really useful, especially if you only want to monitor one frequency. I've been using it today to suss out an airband frequency. Audacity's also really good for assembling several audio recordings into one.

It's called CC780 and it can be downloaded from here: http://kotisivu.dnainternet.net/pa255/ Look for CC780 version 2.67a. The developer is actually Finnish but it's all the operations are in English. Considering it's free, you get some good features but pretty much no technical support. I've also t...

The PC listens to the scanner while I'm at work: the software I've got for the 780XLT records a WAV file for each transmission it receives, and 'stamps' the file with the frequency and time. It also provides a summary of the day's activity (which frequency it received and how many times) so when I g...

Let's see if I've got this image hosting thingo correct...

Here's a couple of pics of my home set-up. Firstly the desk:



And outside, the Diamond D777 antenna:

I think you'll find that at those times of the year when the patrols aren't happening (i.e, the non-summer months) the helicopter goes back into the operator's fleet, available for charter like all their other aircraft.