Brisbane - picking up air frequencies from car

[tingalpa.scan]

Hi All, I'm a newbie to this hobbie and about to buy a uniden handheld scanner. I plan to use this in the car with an external antenna (multi band) attached to bonnet.
Just wondering how much signal I will get, if any, from aircraft/atc whilst driving around in the brisbane suburbs.
Any comments?

[alinco21]

Hi,

you wil get all the aircraft that are flying around, they are above you.

depending on your location, this would have effect on what ground stations you can pick up, 5 watts vers 50 watts from the ground stations.

best bet give it a go and see what you get.

Paul.

[SunnybankScan]

What scanner you looking at buying?

[tingalpa.scan]

I ended up with a uniden ubc93xlt, just reading the manual now and working out how to use it!

[rochedalescan]

Good choice mate, if you want to cheat programing (By not looking at the book) Press (F) funtion - and (E)x2 Enter than put a frequency in and press (E) then repeat steps until all freqs are in then press scan, give us a yell if you need more help with the 93xlt

[AIRMAN]

if you want to cheat programing Press (F) funtion - and (E) Enter than put a frequency in and press (E) then repeat until all freqs are in then press scan

WTF?

[rochedalescan]

What ? I meant cheat by not looking at the book.

[Stretch]

if you want to cheat programing Press (F) funtion - and (E) Enter than put a frequency in and press (E) then repeat until all freqs are in then press scan

WTF?

Confused me too. Sorry Shane