New Feed - Question setting up scanner

[pkloehn]

Hey All,

I'm still working on getting everthing up for a new feed and questions about the frequencies.

When people are setting up a stream for an airport is it better to just set the scanner at one frequency or let it scan all of the freqs for that airport/airspace. Our is it more of one feed=one frequency?

As an example, I'm thinking I should have multiple scanners (one each for tower, ground, departure, etc.) instead of one scanner "scanning" all those frequencies.

I'm fairly new to scanning and scanner technology and still figuring this out. So along that train of thought - Is there some sort of document or publication available giving basic guidelines to setting up a liveatc.net fee?

(I think if there isn't I'll write one up document my experience)

Thanks In Advance!

[Brad]

Too many frequencies and it gets hard to follow conversations. Too few at a slow airport and it gets boring. For a large airport one stream per position or frequency would probably be cool, but otherwise find a mix of the most interesting freqs.

[Biff]

And you probably want to include 121.5 in case there are any really interesting xmissions...

[JetScan1]

The problem is you'll probably get a wide range of opinions on what is better, some people seem to like a lot of busy frequencies on one radio, and some don't. But like Brad says, depends on how busy it is and what you are listening too. If you can do it, the more radios the better, one radio for one frequency, and if it's too slow/boring the listener can always monitor more than one feed at a time. Look at how the Boston and Kennedy feeds are setup, they are both pretty close to ideal. What area/airport are you takling about and how many radios can you set up ? DJ

[pkloehn]

Look at how the Boston and Kennedy feeds are setup, they are both pretty close to ideal. What area/airport are you takling about and how many radios can you set up ? DJ

I'm working on getting a feed set up for KMEM (Memphis Int'l). As many of you probably know it is the main hub for FedEx and during their "pushes" it gets pretty interesting. I just checked my GPS and I live 6.5 miles away from the airport so I should be able to get a pretty decent signal.

My plan is to start out simple with one scanner while I figure out what I'm doing. As I mentioned above, Im fairly new to scanning and am still learning. But when all is said and done,  I'm hoping to have around 4 scanners up by the end of the year.