Air scanning Auckland Aviation

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Eurochild

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#282598 28-Feb-2021 14:38

Hi all

Bought a scanner for Christmas and had fun with the kids listening to the air traffic when we visited Pauanui.

The Auckland frequency situation is a little more complicated. Looking at the following list, for example, there's 5 frequencies listed for Auckland Control.

https://www.radiowiki.org.nz/index.php/Scanning_Aviation_in_Auckland

We live near the airport in Auckland. Would anyone understand how the various frequencies are used? Or, meta-question, if there is a place where this sort of thing is discussed? Can do a bit of trial and error of course but there can be false negatives with a low end scanner so any cheat sheet welcome.

Cheers!

Craig

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#2665759 28-Feb-2021 14:54

I think wither @chris021 or @sbiddle would know this...

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#2665762 28-Feb-2021 15:02

https://www.vatnz.net/airspace/airport/NZAA

Ground - aircraft start up and taxi

Tower - early stage of departure/ late stage of arrivals

Approach - departure Traffic until handover to Control/arrival traffic until handover to Tower

Control - arrivals and departures outside the zone

NZAA_CTR Auckland Control 123.900 NZAA_APP Auckland Approach 124.300 NZAA_TWR Auckland Tower 118.700 NZAA_GND Auckland Ground 121.900

Eurochild

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#2665765 28-Feb-2021 15:20

Thanks - that looks like just the stuff I was after.

Will have another go.

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#2665831 28-Feb-2021 17:40

There is also 121.500 which is the emergency frequency used world-wide

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#2665881 28-Feb-2021 18:34

What model?

If it is a real 'scanner' and not some import transceiver disguised as one. It should 'scan'. That's their main function

And you can put all the above in a bank, and scan the bank. Really hit and miss. A larger airport is always going to see more traffic and require multiple channels as a result. They tend to cross different airports too. So you can fill a bank with them.

Your little airport probably also had tower, unmanned freq, air to air. And possibly radar for handover too.

I have 10 banks at disposal. 20 in each. 1 Dedicated to marine, 1 airband local, 1 airband airshows/air to air, 1 emergency services.. and so on.

But being VHF, it can heavily rely on line of sight. Might get airbone stuff, but not ground/tower if too far away.