Mon May 21, 2018 1:12 pm
#1612766
Proud as punch of our shiny new radio I set off for Welshpool with Mr Crowe (senior) as my companion.
Not having absorbed the manual or figured out how to get stuff from the memory, which was populated with help from here, I basically used it as an old-fashioned flip-flop comms set.
Around Birmingham I dutifully tuned 118.050 and set the appropriate squawk (0010). Total silence. I feared our expensive purchase was a dud. But tuning any other frequency resulted in a satisfying babble of voices. This persisted for ten minutes or so until we went to the next unit.
I note there is another Bham Approach frequency (131.000), is it likely that they were all chattering away on that one? People say that a listening squawk aids situational awareness. I'm afraid this one didn't.
Rob P
I have toyed with posting this in the 'no flaming' students forum in case I have missed something basic.
Not having absorbed the manual or figured out how to get stuff from the memory, which was populated with help from here, I basically used it as an old-fashioned flip-flop comms set.
Around Birmingham I dutifully tuned 118.050 and set the appropriate squawk (0010). Total silence. I feared our expensive purchase was a dud. But tuning any other frequency resulted in a satisfying babble of voices. This persisted for ten minutes or so until we went to the next unit.
I note there is another Bham Approach frequency (131.000), is it likely that they were all chattering away on that one? People say that a listening squawk aids situational awareness. I'm afraid this one didn't.
Rob P
I have toyed with posting this in the 'no flaming' students forum in case I have missed something basic.
"We sleep soundly in our beds because rough men stand ready
in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm."
- George Orwell-
in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm."
- George Orwell-