Which airband receiver do you use.

[flatsix3.6]

As the title says.

I have a Signal R-532, which I need to get repaired

[Old Tyke]

All done by RTL-SDR dongles these days. Physical airband receivers are history.

[flatsix3.6]

Old Tyke said:

All done by RTL-SDR dongles these days. Physical airband receivers are history.

How do they work.

[LP670]

will watch this thread with interest as i am thinking of buying the Uniden UBC 125 XLT

[Eric Mc]

I bought a Uniden UX92XLT last year and it works fine.

[anonymous-user]

Old Tyke said:

All done by RTL-SDR dongles these days. Physical airband receivers are history.

Why?

Portable VHF airband receivers still work perfectly if you're out and about. I've got a uniden bearcat from 1996 which is still a great receiver with plenty of programmable banks of frequencies.

Fair enough if the OP wants something permanently set up and connected to a computer.

I expect it depends on where you live and what you want to listen to.

Edited by anonymous-user on Saturday 11th March 18:37

[halfpenny43]

I still use a Yupiteru MVT-7100 - works great.

[flatsix3.6]

My receiver is connected to an areil on the roof, how good are hand helds for reception indoors or can they also be connected to my areil.

[Dr Jekyll]

flatsix3.6 said:

My receiver is connected to an areil on the roof, how good are hand helds for reception indoors or can they also be connected to my areil.

OK, and yes.

Typically you can hear aircraft in the air from indoors downstairs with the hand held's aerial, but need an external aerial to hear the controllers on the ground unless they are very close.

[anonymous-user]

I have the best of both worlds.

Uniden Bearcat 3500XLT and the excellent (and free) BC Tool software.

Great receiver if you want to take it out and about, but at home it just plugs into an old windows laptop that I keep just for running BC Tool on. Once it's plugged into the USB on the laptop and my small external antenna, it turns into a very useful software scanner which collects logs, records the audio clips and frequencies, and generally does lots of useful things. The scanner becomes wholly controlled by the software.

I just tend to open the laptop up every few days if I feel like it and see if anything interesting has been recorded. Recordings can be sorted by length, band, frequency, time, date etc.

I use mine mostly to listen to air band, search and rescue, and mountain rescue (I live near the Lake District).

I'm happy with the setup.

[Zad]

SDR receivers can also receive ADS-B transmissions too. Plenty of room for SDR and "analogue" radio in the market!

[silverthorn2151]

halfpenny43 said:

I still use a Yupiteru MVT-7100 - works great.

I am bumping this thread as a request for some pointers.

My Dad passed away in early September and he has(d) that exact model. Anyway, I've got it now sitting on my desk and for all sorts of reasons I'd like to know how to use it.

Thing is, I have no real idea of what it can and can't do and how best to set it up. I know Dad used to enjoy listening to the planes in the area. We live in north east London and have all sorts of commercial traffic around us. This is probably a massive question but any pointers to books, guides or websites really would be appreciated. Needless to say I haven't found the manual yet but if I did I expect it would have loads of acronyms in it I don't understand....yet.

[Easternlight]

Here's a link for a manual down load, don't know how safe it is might be worth reading online.

https://www.manualslib.com/manual/836663/Yupiteru-...

They're quite confusing when you first start out as any new bit of tech is.
Try You tube I'm sure there will be plenty on there for it, once you've some scan banks set up its easy.

Haven't used mine for years, must dig it out and see if it still works.