{"id":24044,"date":"2017-02-08T06:00:44","date_gmt":"2017-02-08T10:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=24044"},"modified":"2017-02-07T08:35:44","modified_gmt":"2017-02-07T12:35:44","slug":"video-ivans-airborne-tv-dx-catches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/video-ivans-airborne-tv-dx-catches\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Ivan&#8217;s Airborne TV DX catches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Aircraft-Jet-Boeing-VOLMET.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-12696 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Aircraft-Jet-Boeing-VOLMET.jpg\" width=\"645\" height=\"255\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Aircraft-Jet-Boeing-VOLMET.jpg 645w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Aircraft-Jet-Boeing-VOLMET-300x119.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 645px) 100vw, 645px\" \/><\/a>Many thanks to <em>SWLing Post<\/em> contributor,\u00a0Ivan Cholakov (NO2CW), who writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A while back I shared a <a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/aeronautical-sdr-ivans-in-flight-fm-spectrum-captures\/\">short story about FM reception from commercial jetliners<\/a>. I do that regularly on my flights but I also gave &#8220;Airborne TV DX&#8221; a try.<\/p>\n<p>My equipment is as follows:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Windows laptop<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2ljmcnX\" target=\"_blank\">Hauppauge USB dongle<\/a> receiver WinTV-HVR-955Q<\/li>\n<li>3-inch stick antenna<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>The receiver comes with its own WinTV software for tuning, scanning, watching and recording TV programs. It is one of the few USB dongle size receivers for North America&#8217;s ATSC digital TV standard. A have posted a video of my reception recordings from a roundtrip flight Miami to St Louis.<\/p>\n<p>The video is located here:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rBWN7no8eHQ?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/rBWN7no8eHQ\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to view on YouTube.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>My notes regarding this activity:<\/p>\n<p>Reception from commercial airplanes is possible as far as 400 miles with the simple unobtrusive &#8220;stick&#8221; antenna.<\/p>\n<p>Channel scanning is pretty slow and it is possible that by the time you detect a signal, save it, and tune to it you are 50 miles away from the point where you detected it.<\/p>\n<p>Many times signals are detected but no video can be shown due to weak signal. Users in Europe may have a different experience as the availability of DVB-T USB dongles and software is much wider.<\/p>\n<p>TV DX can make a coast to coast flight a much more interesting experience!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>No doubt, Ivan! Thanks so much for sharing.<\/p>\n<p>Ivan is quiet adept at logging and recording FM and TV DX while in the air and at sea. <a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/tag\/ivan-cholakov-no2cw\/\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to view his previous posts<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor,\u00a0Ivan Cholakov (NO2CW), who writes: A while back I shared a short story about FM reception from commercial jetliners. I do that regularly on my flights but I also gave &#8220;Airborne TV DX&#8221; a try. My equipment is as follows: Windows laptop Hauppauge USB dongle receiver WinTV-HVR-955Q 3-inch stick antenna [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5935,627,3,1154],"tags":[5561,5391,3298,5936],"class_list":["post-24044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dx","category-how-to","category-news","category-travel","tag-aeronautical","tag-ivan-cholakov-no2cw","tag-tv","tag-tv-dx"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-6fO","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":20767,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/ivans-preliminary-review-of-the-new-rtl-sdr-dongle-on-shortwavemediumwave\/","url_meta":{"origin":24044,"position":0},"title":"Ivan&#8217;s preliminary review of the new RTL-SDR dongle on shortwave\/mediumwave","author":"Thomas","date":"August 22, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Ivan Cholakov (NO2CW), who shares the following video review of the\u00a0new\u00a0RTL-SDR dongle on the\u00a0shortwave\u00a0and mediumwave bands. 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The results show analog TV is alive and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;News&quot;","block_context":{"text":"News","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Cuba-TV.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Cuba-TV.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Cuba-TV.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":55049,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/ivan-checks-out-the-new-tef6686-chip-radio\/","url_meta":{"origin":24044,"position":3},"title":"Ivan checks out the new TEF6686 chip radio","author":"Thomas","date":"December 15, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Ivan Cholakov (NO2CW) who writes: Hey I just got a radio from China based on the famed tef6686 tuning chip. Just started checking out the basic functions and will let you know how it fares on the bands. https:\/\/youtu.be\/hLwA2poOzhU Video description: This project started\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;New Products&quot;","block_context":{"text":"New Products","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/new-products\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/New-TEF6686-Plus-4-0-LNA-3-2-DSP-Radio-Full-Band-Radio-Dual-Speaker-Hardware.jpg_Q90.jpg_.webp?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/New-TEF6686-Plus-4-0-LNA-3-2-DSP-Radio-Full-Band-Radio-Dual-Speaker-Hardware.jpg_Q90.jpg_.webp?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/New-TEF6686-Plus-4-0-LNA-3-2-DSP-Radio-Full-Band-Radio-Dual-Speaker-Hardware.jpg_Q90.jpg_.webp?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/New-TEF6686-Plus-4-0-LNA-3-2-DSP-Radio-Full-Band-Radio-Dual-Speaker-Hardware.jpg_Q90.jpg_.webp?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/New-TEF6686-Plus-4-0-LNA-3-2-DSP-Radio-Full-Band-Radio-Dual-Speaker-Hardware.jpg_Q90.jpg_.webp?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":32464,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/thomas-n1spy-how-to-chase-cubesats-with-an-rtl-sdr-dongle-and-some-wire\/","url_meta":{"origin":24044,"position":4},"title":"Thomas (N1SPY): How to chase Cubesats with an RTL-SDR dongle and some wire","author":"Thomas","date":"May 29, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to Ivan (NO2CW) who writes: Thomas, N1SPY used equipment worth $25 to chase mini satellites. 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