WA Radio Scanner Users' Group

Hey guys

I was wondering if it's possible to listen in on Military radio channels (not sure of the correct term)

If so, what equipment will i need and where could i purchase it.

I live right next to a airbase and would love to know when the aircraft are going to fly over.

Thanks it advance.

I would assume as long as you knew the frequencies and had a receiver capable of, it's certainly possible. Dunno bout the legalities of it though.

Don't know the frequencies....was hoping you guys would


Even if i can't access the military channels, where could i get a radio that could listen in on civilian frequencies.

Primarily interested in Airlines/light aircraft.

First thing: what airbase do you live alongside? a surprising number of airbase frequencies are listed in publicly available aviation documents, such as En Route Supplement Australia, which can be accessed on the Airservices Australia website.

http://www.scanaustralia.bigpondhosting ... /RAAF3.htm

RAAF air frequencies.

Scan between 220MHz and 400MHz. see what else comes up. It's a pretty big chunk though

I live near the Swanbourne S.A.S barracks in Perth.

Blackhawks and C130 Hercules' have been flying around constantly for the last 2 weeks. I'd love to hear what they're doing it for.

What equipment would you recommend i buy ?

most "scanners" will cover that band , its VHF , UHF and airbands your looking for, the very popular Uniden's UBC72XLT and UBC92XLT will do the job, but you might like to set up an external arieal, depending on what else you will want to be listening to , i recomend a 6db or 12db base antenna for 477Mhz , it will pick up these RAAF fequncies, but not as well as a antenna tuned for the specific frequencies. the reason i sugest the 477mhz antenna is because they will be cheaper and alot easyer to find than a arieal designed for those frequencies.

put simply, a Uniden UBC72XLT will cover the required frequencies
a 6db UHF CB antenna on a 10 meter high mast will drematicly improve your reception.

The army helicopters fly less that 10m above my house maybe a bit to high haha.

But thanks for the tips. I'm not familiar with any shops that sell these sort of products. Do you know of any in the Perth area with approx price range?

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SAS use encrypted transmissions, spec ops aircraft use same for spec ops. General training do sometimes use general milfreq, but the boys at the regiment prefer encryption units.

Bungarra wrote:SAS use encrypted transmissions

Depends what they are doing