[Scan-DC] AIR INCIDENT

[Andrew Clegg]

I'm so annoyed. I have been recording 129.45 MHz pretty much 24/7 for the
last several weeks, EXCEPT this afternoon. I had to reboot my PC earlier
today and forgot to restart Scanrec.

By the way, I have been tracking the distance over which I can hear the
airplanes at altitude. When I hear them on 129.45, I use a flight tracking
web site to see exactly where the plane is at that moment. I can get clear
signals from over 300 miles away when they are "at altitude" (30,000+ ft). I
have heard planes that are over Raleigh, and over the very southwestern tip
of Virginia (at 37,000 ft). This is just using a discone, 130' ft of RG-8,
and no pre-amp. I realize the planes are line-of-sight, but still, to get a
clear signal from 300 miles away is still quite cool.

Andy

-----Original Message-----
From: scan-dc-bounces at mailman.qth.net
[mailto:scan-dc-bounces at mailman.qth.net]On Behalf Of Doug Kitchener
Sent: Saturday, May 02, 2009 11:34 PM
To: scan-dc at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Scan-DC] AIR INCIDENT



Well, you made up for it on the Arlington incident... no demerits today,
Andy!  :)

DK

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> From: w4jecom at w4je.com
> To: johnson at cpcug.org; Scan-DC at mailman.qth.net
> Date: Sat, 2 May 2009 22:38:27 -0400
> Subject: Re: [Scan-DC] AIR INCIDENT
>
> Ralph,
>
> Of course, this afternoon was a rare time when I was not recording that
> frequency.
>
> Andy
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From:
> To:
> Sent: Saturday, May 02, 2009 9:35 PM
> Subject: [Scan-DC] AIR INCIDENT
>
>
>>
>> Was anyone monitoring 129.45 at approximately 5:30 p.m. today?
>>
>> I had been up in the Frederick Watershed doing some amateur work when I
>> monitored a Chronic Occluded Pulmonary Disease (COPD, so I was
>> told)incident on a flight.
>>
>> A male passenger on board the flight suffered COPD complications and was
>> spread out on the plane's floor being given oxygen from a supplementary
>> tank not normally used. An oncologist on board was assisting the person.
>> At times the patient was unresponsive but in one of the last
transmissions
>> I was able to monitor he was able to open his eyes.
>>
>> The signal was very weak so I could only catch bits and pieces and it
>> disappeared when I started down the hill. Once I got away from South
>> Mountain on US 15 I was not able to reacquire the signal.
>>
>> Well, I have heard where some people have come into the world on a flight
>> and there have been people who have left the world on flights. Hope he
>> made it through.
>>
>> Ralph Johnson
>>
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