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I'm just looking for an antenna to receive airplane comms from about 20km with a semi-direct LOS, Just a couple trees in the way. I made a dipole antenna for this but have had limited success. Any ideas on directional 120mhz antennas or maybe how to make a yagi one?

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7 minutes ago, Julian5 said:

I'm just looking for an antenna to receive airplane comms from about 20km with a semi-direct LOS, Just a couple trees in the way. I made a dipole antenna for this but have had limited success. Any ideas on directional 120mhz antennas or maybe how to make a yagi one?

I bought an entire radio at a garage sale that i can listen to airplanes on, only works for about 30km each way and cant transmit, but its pretty cool.

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3 minutes ago, Jrock said:

I bought an entire radio at a garage sale that i can listen to airplanes on, only works for about 30km each way and cant transmit, but its pretty cool.

What antenna are you using?

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4 hours ago, Julian5 said:

What antenna are you using?

Not an external one. Its a weird radio that can tune to that frequency...

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1 hour ago, Jrock said:

Not an external one. Its a weird radio that can tune to that frequency...

impressive range for an internal antenna!

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16 hours ago, CK1968 said:

https://www.diamondantenna.net/d130j.html

 

https://www.wimo.com/scanner-antennas_e.html#18060

 

 

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