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Has anyone else experienced this? Back in Dec timeframe, was practicing in my instructor's C172 at RHV and we were hearing what sounded like a radio station or something similar bleeding over onto tower's freq. Fast forward to a few days ago, and I hear the same thing on my handheld in my Luscombe (antenna is mounted on fuselage, not the handheld's antenna).
In both planes it seems to go away below a certain alt (maybe 1.5-2k?). I called tower for a radio check to test my handheld's range, and once their transmission in response was over the interference started and lasted for minutes, but I heard other calls somewhat through the static during that time. It was pretty hard to hear any actual transmissions with the static. We'd mentioned it to the tower in my instructor's plane, but they said nobody else had complained... I also tested all 3 freqs of theirs the other day (2 tower freqs and the Unicom) and they all showed the issue, but no local frequencies have the problem except RHV's.
If I've heard it in 2 planes over a span of 10 months, I can't be the only one... right?
In both planes it seems to go away below a certain alt (maybe 1.5-2k?). I called tower for a radio check to test my handheld's range, and once their transmission in response was over the interference started and lasted for minutes, but I heard other calls somewhat through the static during that time. It was pretty hard to hear any actual transmissions with the static. We'd mentioned it to the tower in my instructor's plane, but they said nobody else had complained... I also tested all 3 freqs of theirs the other day (2 tower freqs and the Unicom) and they all showed the issue, but no local frequencies have the problem except RHV's.
If I've heard it in 2 planes over a span of 10 months, I can't be the only one... right?