Tagged: ATIS

Tracking Down an ATIS Tower with KrakenSDR

Over on YouTube The Comms Channel has uploaded a video showing how they used a KrakenSDR to track down the location of an ATIS transmission tower.

If you weren't already aware, KrakenSDR is our 5-channel coherent radio based on RTL-SDRs, and it can be used for applications like radio direction finding. It can be purchased on Crowd Supply.

Airports typically have an ATIS (Automatic Terminal Information Service) transmission tower that broadcasts audio of recorded information such as weather, runway conditions, and any important notices.

In the video, they use the KrakenSDR to track down the location of an ATIS transmission tower at their local airport. In the future, they intend on using the KrakenSDR to help track down Meshtastic radios.

Radio Direction Finding with the KrakenSDR | Radio Direction Finding Series

Frugal Radio: Monitoring VHF Airband Aviation Frequencies at the Airport

Rob from Frugal Radio has recently uploaded the next video in his airband monitoring series. In this video Rob explains various airband communications that can be received from the airport, and explains about needing to be in the line of sight of an airport in order to receive them.

He goes on to explain signals and airport radio communications channels such as ATIS, Clearance Delivery, Tower, Arrivals (Approach), Departures, Radar and Terminal communications. The video provides various examples of these communications being received with an SDRplay software defined radio.

Monitoring VHF Airband Aviation Frequencies at the Airport

An Overview of Aircraft Communication Modes from HF to UHF

Over on YouTube icholakov has uploaded an informative video that gives an overview of the main communication modes that aircraft use from HF to UHF. In the video he also gives examples of those modes being received and decoded with an SDR.

The modes that he explains and demonstrates are VHF voice, VHF ATIS automated weather, ACARS short data messages, HF voice, HF automatic weather, HF data selective calling (SELCAL), HF data link (HFDL) and UHF ADS-B aircraft positioning.

2018: Monitoring airplane communications (aviation radio signal monitoring via sdr)