Ham Operating From A Boeing 737:
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These days SWL Denis F-11217 and ham radio operator F1USC report QSO made with an amateur radio operating in "Aeronautical Mobile" which is how we determine an amateur in flight, after the area code, the / AM is added.
PH9HB/AM regularly flies to northern Europe and is often active on 17-meter band; it comes in regular contact with radio amateurs from a Boeing 737-400 etc 737-800. The airborne equipment consists of a Collins HFS900D, which works on USB and AM; it can use 400 watts PEP. The antenna is of the shunt-fed slotted type, situated in the vertical end of the tail section.
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by KG4RUL on September 7, 2010
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Also see the article "Ham Radio in the Air" by by Eskil van Loosdrecht, AB6BC/SM5SRR, which appeared on page 67 in the August 2009 issue of QST.
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by N0PWZ on September 7, 2010
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Yup. This is quite common for those hams that are aeronautically oriented. DC-10's, 747's, 737's, and B-52's burning up taxpayer's dollars over the polar icecap have been doing it for decades. It's tough to beat Collins commercial equipment. Though the antenna, buried in the vertical stablizer on the 737's leaves something to be desired, it is more likely to get the job done than not.
It would just be a shame if all of that high priced equipment, in the avionics rack below the cockpit (all you get is the heads), wasn't put to good use enroute. It is so tempting when you're board out of your minds!!
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