Listening In: Air Traffic Control Transmissions

Do you live close to a busy commercial airport? When people think of living near the airport, the first thing that comes to mind is the constant noise of jets taking off and landing. But that noise may be music to your ears if you are an aviation buff. There is a...

Winter Weather Scanning

Severe weather doesn’t just happen in the spring and summer. For much of the US, as the temperatures turn cold, winter weather is a real threat. Although we usually don’t have the sudden onslaught of severity that a line of thunderstorms can bring, a...

Monitoring Aviation Band Communications

A big segment of the scanner community is centered around listening to aircraft communications that happen on the ground and in the air. Living near a major airport, these transmissions can be quite numerous; but even in less populated area you can hear a plethora of...

J-Pole Scanner Antennas

The other day I was listening to the scanner and I heard a page out for the fire department. The address was about a block away from our house, so I popped outside and was surprised to see the box factory near our house was on fire. As the fire trucks got closer, a...

Railroad Band Antennas

Do you love listening to trains? Do you wish you coud extend the range of your scanner so you could hear more of the action on the railroads? My Railroad band antenna works great for train buff and railfans to listen to the action in both the rail yard and on the...