20 meter contact with Falcon 2000 at 43,000 ft

[maciejwrotek]

What is collins transceiver ? Never heard of it

[mamatalu]

You can communicate with airplanes?? I guess the person on board must also have license and a call, correct? I had no idea that they could use flight HF radio for amateur contacts! Holy Cupcakes! I gotta get my general ticket soon, man!!

How did you happen to make this contact? Which frequency range were you working? I have no HF experience.

[lysippus]

You were speaking with the director/Chairman of Molson , RBC, and EnCana--likely on his commute to work in Toronto.

[lysippus]

@lysippus \\ sorry, in Calgary

[scottishsanny]

I worked Casey... cant remember the call aeronautical mobile a few years ago.. he worked for the RCAF... and was using an alfa tango call...

[QuincyCHL]

I thing you put AGC control on fast position on the ts440s. I use on slow position for voice comms and get better audio reception.

[felipeceglia]

35 thousand dollars, and such a crappy audio.

all aerial mobile stations I talked to had crappy audio, no exception.

[bullzisnipr3]

So doesn't that tell you something about aerial stations? Transmitting from 43,000 ft and getting that quality is pretty impressive.

Keep in mind all the ambient noise an aircraft has.

[tperry2]

Wow, that's cool. He never said the model of HF XCVR in the aircraft except made by Collins. 718U maybe? Only because they are certified TSO'd for installation in an aircraft and made by Rockwell Collins are they as expensive as he said. I have worked on that model radio, and they are no better than the top amateur model HF xcvrs. Terry-AE5EH