So a few days ago I bought my first scanner, a Uniden UBC126AT with just the stock AT218 antenna. The main use of it is to get RAAF and just general air frequencies. I live in Toowong so I thought I had a good position to get Brisbane Airport, Archerfield and Amberley. So I set it up and tuned to 120.5 (YBBN Tower) and heard...nothing. I looked around more and discovered the only frequencies that work are the Approach and Departure frequencies. This is for all airports, I have regular Brisbane airport approach transmissions, occasional Archerfield and even heard an RAAF plane on final approach to Amberley. The approach and departure frequencies I have for Brisbane airport are 124.7 and 128.3 but I get no ATIS, no Brisbane Radar, no tower or ground. Did some research and found that Brisbane airport has those frequencies at Mt Coot-tha which is really close to where I live so that's why. So I was wondering if I needed to get a better antenna to get to Brisbane airport or Amberley and if so, which antenna would you recommend? I can't have something too big just a medium sort of thing I can attach to the roof.
Statistics: Posted by Dom2364 — Wed Feb 18, 2015 8:00 pm