[Hallicrafters] OT: Aircraft Band

[Roy Morgan]

At 10:33 AM 3/4/2005, Bill Gerhold wrote:
>... 2 or more simultaneous transmissions would be heard
>as a heterodyne and the tower would know there was a transmission

Or the tower would hear both transmissions well enough to understand them.

Example:

Strong signal:      "Tower this is Cessna 534 at ten miles for landing."
(weak signal)    ...    "Mayday mayday engine failure over the VOR!"

This kind of thing has happened, of course.

Roy
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