Liveatc EIDW Feed is up AND GOING WELL. Donations to keep it up would be appreciated

No problem, I actually don't listen to the feeds that much, I usually check the Liveatc page for feed status.

I'm not convinced that the TWR NTH scanner is working properly but I'm just short of time at the minute to troubleshoot it.

I'll get a look at it shortly.

I think FR24 have set-up guidea on their website and they offer to help people with setups

Hey Bumpstop, the feed seems to be down this morning😞 Thanks for hosting as always, a great tool to have for all of us.

Hopefully my power and broadband stay working tomorrow, I don't think we will hit too bad here.

I am able to raise and lower the antenna a few feet easily, so I have it lowered into the storm position so to speak😀

It actually doesn't affect the performance too much, ground takes a bit of a hit.

If anything happens I'll try and keep all updated if I can.

I am making some changes over the weekend so the feeds will be down for a while at some point.

Nothing major, just moving the set up, and replacing the aging co ax cable while I am at it.

Hi, yes.

I don't know why, some days it's better than others.

I have tried to improve it, but it is just a low power signal. (Maybe a comms tech at the airport might know)

It's not on a software radio and has it's own dedicated scanner with a VHF RF amp and that's as good as I can get it.

Perhaps the tower comms is low power and directional on the runway headings but I don't know.

I have been looking into getting a directional hi gain vhf band yagi antenna for it, so that may help.

Considering the other tower is on an un amped SDR and it's fine, it's a bit frustrating.

I have a sneaking suspicion, tower north is TX'd from the north side of the field, at the TX site which is just inside the north perimeter road, whereas the "old" (south) tower frequency is from the TX's in the tower. A ramble around the field would confirm this. The north TX is lower elevation, so anything southwards trying to receive would have a worse signal.

as mentioned previously, your location is probably lower elevation to the presumed northside TX site compared to the tower south freq. This would tie in with the "good somedays, not so good somedays", as the groundwave signal strength will vary with ground/air conditions.

Looking at google maps, all antennas are folded dipoles (standard setup for civil airband). You only start going down the directional antenna route for bespoke coverage solutions (a tower frequency is not one of these situations).

Solutions:

higher antenna is always better. Amplifiers are an option, but will also amplify any noise, this is a bit of an art to get these working without introducing unwanted noise. Directional antenna is an option, but, you take away possible coverage of aircraft if pointing at the TX site, maybe a low element, slightly directional yagi may be an option (3-4 element?)... won't be as much gain, but may improve the tower signal without sacrificing much coverage due to directivity (i.e. you still get the planes )

Seconded. I was getting Newstalk on it last week. Which was unfortunate as I was trying to prove to my colleague that I had read back an instruction correctly 🤣

Hiya @Bumpstop, I can't seem to see the combined EIDW Del/Gnd/Twr/App/Center feed on the website - not sure if this is only an issue on my end or if everyone is experiencing this. Thanks in advance for this brilliant resource!

WRONG THREAD

All feeds down? I’m getting nothing. I’d say aerials are being blown to bits today.

First world problems!

Hi mwrf. Dave at Liveatc is a great help.

In my own case the storm did quite a bit of damage here, so am going to be down for a while.