I'd like to listen to "airband" traffic. That's 108-137 MHz amplitude modulated.
They sell scanners that cover airband, but they start at $80 minumum and I'm much too cheap for that at the moment. I've found a few options. First, I see a couple of people vaguely recommending that if you take a radio with an analog tuning wheel, and do some funny stuff to the inductance coils or something or other then it will magically tune airband instead of FM. Frankly I don't understand this but it sounds promising. Second is to build something like this: http://hans.fugal.net/tmp/ajp.html (his site annoyingly circumvents deep linking with silly javascript, so I mirrored it) I can go to Radio Shack and buy parts, and I know my way around a soldering gun, so I think I could do this. It looks like fun and not too big a project. But are there special techniques to winding or anything else that will make any attempt by novice me a likely failure? If Radio Shack doesn't have the TBA820 can I use some other amplifier? etc. Third is to get lucky on eBay. Basically I'm looking for someone to answer my silly questions as they come up so I can have a fun learning experience. I know there's a few HAM operators in here and others with experience in this sort of thing. And if anyone has a scanner that does the VHF frequencies listed above and just wants to give it to me, I wouldn't balk at that either. :-) Just to keep it on topic, I'd like to hook up my gadget to the computer running linux and broadcast what I pick up for KLRU at LiveATC.net. -- Hans Fugal ; http://hans.fugal.net There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself. -- Johann Sebastian Bach
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