Trying to listen to Shannon High Level

mr_jackapple

Hello everyone,

I'm living in Cavan and have a very simple Uniden Scanner.

My goal is to try listen to Shannon High Level frequencies but I'm not having much luck.

Found a great list of frequencies to tune in to : https://flyinginireland.com/frequencies/

The problem is I rarely hear much.

The odd time, I'll get some half-sentences on 119.0750 and today I picked up some stuff on 129.6666.

I'm fairly new to this kind of stuff so I'm not sure if I'm doing something wrong. Am I simply out of range or am I listening to the wrong frequencies?

I've got my scanner connected to one of these antennas: https://amzn.to/2LEKnhf

....and I know the equipment works because I've heard some ATC and also the odd chatter from local taxi services.

Any advice would be great. Thanks!

jmcc

That antenna probably will not give any decent results. An external antenna would be better. Even a dipole made from two pieces of wire, a connector block and some coaxial cable would probably provide better results. Those ATC frequencies are just above FM broadcast frequencies so there can be a range issue.

What you could do, if your scanner covers Shortwave frequencies, is to listen to Shanwick control.

https://www.iaa.ie/air-traffic-management/north-atlantic-communications
http://www.kinetic.co.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?t=9448

These are some of the Shannon frequencies.

https://www.liveatc.net/search/?icao=einn

Regards...jmcc