Hi, can anyone tell me what sort of hand held radio scanner I would need to listen to all the shipping/air traffic there is off the coast at the moment please?
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Hi, can anyone tell me what sort of hand held radio scanner I would need to listen to all the shipping/air traffic there is off the coast at the moment please?
any scanner will do for marine band
its not changed in almost 70yrs
as for airband again its little changed bar additional channels just like the 12.5khz spacing on marine
bar some 6.25Khz data
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Originally Posted by dx100uk
******Thanks*****.
One with an external antenna. Unless you want to stand on the pier and just about hear a boat at the end of the pier! Some of the more modern scanners also have in built spell checkers, which is helpful.Quote:
Originally Posted by barmar62
????? spell checkers..??
May be a reference to title of thread..............amateur rather than amature.....unless thread is about an older radio :-)Quote:
Originally Posted by dx100uk
:lol::rolleyes:
Well, kinda. Whilst you can hear BOWL marine ops on conventional FM, some of their comms are now on DMR, including marine vessels.Quote:
Originally Posted by dx100uk