Ohakea Control

[davys747]

Just a question for the NZOH feeder...

On the list of frequencies next to the feed you list two Ohakea Control frequencies but I have never heard any communications involving Ohakea Control. Are these frequencies being monitored at all?

I would love to hear the Ohekea controllers as well as TWR.

[kiwisteve]

Hi , thanks for the question. Due to the Control frequencies being transmitted from a location not at Ohakea   I'm unable to receive them at a quality suitable to rebroadcast.  Those freqs are transmitted from  around 75km away from me and through several lots of hills making signal of only about s1 on the receiver meter .
I will see if  Dave or Sean can remove the two control frequencies from the listing .
I believe the  Wanganui Feeder can hear them at a reasonable strength so might be worth sending him a note to see if he be prepared to uplink them

Steve

[Falcon900]

Hi Steve.

I'm down here in Timaru and amongst us we almost have the whole country covered.

Just a bummer Auckland and Queenstown are not fed.

I have great reception since Airways upgraded the radios some months back so I am pretty happy. A little fog also helps the reception too!. An airways clearance at 76 miles is not too bad. It is hard to believe sometimes. I bet the aircraft tug driver never thought he would get on the feed either but they do.

What is you location??

Pity too there are no Skyhawks. Even the Airforce museum is a sitting duck by the sound of it.

Best regards.

Hayden

[kiwisteve]

Hayden,
Yes its a pity about the Museum , there has been many comments about it in the local papers over the last week or two . I'm aprox 50k South of the base so have reasonable reception of tower and aircraft in flight but ground traffic is a bit weak due to distance and some high ground in between. unfortunately the control freqs got moved over to the SSR at Ballance some time back  which is behind several lots of hills from me and prob around 65K away so reception is near nil. But looking at setting up a remote RX .
catch up some time on a pvt message

Steve