HELP for Newcomer
Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2008 1:53 pm
Hi all aviation enthusiasts!
I am Gayle, a retired Registered Nurse, one-time recreational pilot and aircraft owner and ex-"ham" radio operator. My interest in flying and radio goes back to the 1940s.
Feeling a bit nostalgic I have just purchased a secondhand ICOM IC-R2 scanner and am delighted with its' performance on the airbands. Living in Greenmount I am directly under the inbound traffic to Perth from the ES with the giants of the air floating in very low and very beautiful to behold.
There is a beacon just across the street from me.
My knowledge of radio is extremely rusty nowadays, but I have quickly built a 1/4 wave groundplane antenna and put up a longwire and am now waiting on an antenna connection adapter to arrive from the ES to see how my homebrew base antennas perform. As it is, I can pick up Jandakot and Pearce and Perth Tower is clearly visible.
Now, re. my scanner which has many fuctions and capabilities far beyond my ability to understand or implement. It has 8 memory banks each able to store 50 frequencies or "channels." My trouble is, can only get nine frequencies to store in a bank (Ch 0-8). What am I doing wrong? - and please keep it very simple (I am in my mid 70s and get easily confused nowadays!)
- Gayle
I am Gayle, a retired Registered Nurse, one-time recreational pilot and aircraft owner and ex-"ham" radio operator. My interest in flying and radio goes back to the 1940s.
Feeling a bit nostalgic I have just purchased a secondhand ICOM IC-R2 scanner and am delighted with its' performance on the airbands. Living in Greenmount I am directly under the inbound traffic to Perth from the ES with the giants of the air floating in very low and very beautiful to behold.
There is a beacon just across the street from me.
My knowledge of radio is extremely rusty nowadays, but I have quickly built a 1/4 wave groundplane antenna and put up a longwire and am now waiting on an antenna connection adapter to arrive from the ES to see how my homebrew base antennas perform. As it is, I can pick up Jandakot and Pearce and Perth Tower is clearly visible.
Now, re. my scanner which has many fuctions and capabilities far beyond my ability to understand or implement. It has 8 memory banks each able to store 50 frequencies or "channels." My trouble is, can only get nine frequencies to store in a bank (Ch 0-8). What am I doing wrong? - and please keep it very simple (I am in my mid 70s and get easily confused nowadays!)
- Gayle
