Suggestion on VHF receiver for the hanger

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Baron62

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Does anybody have a suggestion on an inexpensive VHF receiver for the hangar? Ideally one that also received AM, FM and VHF that I could plug into the wall. Would be nice to listen to airport trafic while I was working on the airplane. Thanks
 
I can't find it online, but Radio Shack used to carry an el cheapo battery/plug in radio that does all that. I still have mine.
 
Sporty's Airscan V, plays FM then interupts for any vhf traffic on the selected frequencies.

I picked mine up on Ebay for $50

A google search should yield a pdf of the owners manual.
 
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I'd just do them separately. Tunes are meant to be played on quality speakers. Air band stuff can be handled with any old $5 garage sale scanner. And if the tunes are Pauling they'd better be played loud enough you wouldn't hear a scanner over them. ;)
 
I was going to suggest Radio Shack, but they are history. And my RS scanner isn't for sale. :D
 
Old cheap non digital scanner would work well for the air traffic. Some models from uniden had am/fm radios in them.
 
Ropin4gold said:
Old cheap non digital scanner would work well for the air traffic. Some models from uniden had am/fm radios in them.
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Technically they all had AM/FM radios in them. ;) Hard to copy aviation band traffic without AM...

AM and FM on the broadcast portion of the spectrum... that's something different. :) :) :)
 
I use my handheld for traffic and play Pandora on my phone via an inexpensive Bluetooth speaker.

Cheers
 
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