[Scan-DC] DCA Tower

[Dewey]

Oh yea, me thinks it's just temporary; however, I always reserve the right to be wrong.  When the split occurred, the helicopter traffic was EXTREMELY busy at the time... almost as if DCA knew there would be a lot of helicopters in the area.

Dewey

-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Clegg <andrew_w_clegg at hotmail.com> 
Sent: Wednesday, September 8, 2021 10:55
To: Dewey <dewey3 at gmail.com>
Cc: scan-dc at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Scan-DC] DCA Tower

I didn’t see your final sentence coming!

Do you think this split could be temporary?

Andy


> On Sep 8, 2021, at 10:34 AM, Dewey <dewey3 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I know some time back, a number of us were talking about the lack of
> reception of the DCA tower frequency for aircraft (119.100).  The consensus,
> which I agree, is that the tower aircraft frequency is somehow set so it is
> probably propagated upward toward the approaching and departing planes.  In
> fact, I know that the last time I was at Gravelly Point (before the
> pandemic), I couldn't even hear the tower just on the other side of the
> estuary.   This morning was a prime example of that for me.  I was hearing
> the tower almost full quieting on the 134.350 helicopter frequency while the
> 119.100 aircraft frequency was not even breaking squelch for the tower's
> transmissions.  I was listening to both frequencies simultaneously on two
> different receivers running through the same antenna and distribution
> amplifier.  I even switched the helicopter/aircraft roles of the receivers
> and still had the same results.  Just something I thought about this morning
> as the tower came booming in on the helicopter frequency.  The "fun" ended
> about a half hour ago when it appears that they've now separated the
> 119.100/134.350 transmissions.
> 
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