The static may come in even worse with a taller mast but its worth a shot !!
Since you seem to enjoy the hobby
why not look into getting a
Yagi antenna ? IE: this will not only give you more db gain but will allow you to direct the antenna right at the airport and null out a lot of that noise !
You may also try adding a
Notch Filter (mine is set to 6k) however a lower notch will degrade the audio but may cut out the noise one other thing is to try using a
IF shift do to the noise may not even be on that frequency but in the IF strips in the radio itself or coming from something near by , a
Noise Blanker may help as well
Now if you had a
Band Scope and or
Noise Tracer would help track down the noise, but I wont go there as this would go outside the scope (no pun) of this thread !
Anyway I think your feed sounds fine the way it is (remember you don't get payed for it) so thanks for providing a
free radio feed
These are only a few suggestions that you may or can not afford to do but what ever you decide its up to you (its your hobby) we just listen in
Thanks for sharing your part of the world with all of us,
73
Glenn KB6HLM Las Vegas, NV
I felt the need to jump back in here after listening to your feed tonight I am not sure what "crazy static" your referring to? the only thing I've noticed is that the towers sound a bit weak but most of the planes sound fine, if thats the case? then all you need is a bit more db gain and you bet ya raising the ANT may help
One other thing I wanted to comment on is that most scanners have a weak receive IE:Poor S/N (signal to noise ratio) and this would explain why you are having some trouble getting the tower over the /N (BTW I am not using a scanner) and it took a lot of time and $$$ to get good signal strengths from the LAS towers (so I feel your pain)
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