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Weekend Project: Aircraft Band Receiver (PDF)

Dig out that vintage AM/FM radio and modify it so you can pick up air traffic control communications.Thanks go to Cy Tymony for the original article in Make Volume 09
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Posted by: N/A on August 1, 2008 at 6:12 AM

Bad Link

The link to the PDF isn't working...

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Posted by: romulusnr on August 1, 2008 at 8:56 AM

FM for aviation?

AFAIK aviation traffic is in AM, so if you're listening to them with a radio in FM mode, you'll hear signals but they'll be hard to make out, as if you amplified a soundwave until it clipped completely.

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Posted by: mph on August 1, 2008 at 11:13 AM

AM for aviation.

romulusnr, part of the procedure is to defeat the AM suppression that's normally present in the FM receiver, so that the AM transmissions are audible. If you squint at the image, you can make out these instructions. It would be nice if the PDF link worked...

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Posted by: KipKay on August 1, 2008 at 11:34 AM

PDF

Should be working now...sorry about that.

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Posted by: Bryan on August 1, 2008 at 1:25 PM

any idea on reception range

How close do you think you'd need to be to an airport to get any reception?

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