{"id":26587,"date":"2017-06-24T18:00:28","date_gmt":"2017-06-24T22:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=26587"},"modified":"2017-06-23T19:12:12","modified_gmt":"2017-06-23T23:12:12","slug":"video-air-traffic-on-the-hf-bands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/video-air-traffic-on-the-hf-bands\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Air traffic on the HF bands"},"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 size-full wp-image-12696\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Aircraft-Jet-Boeing-VOLMET.jpg\" alt=\"\" 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><\/p>\n<p>Many thanks to <em>SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Dan Hawkins, who writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Air traffic bands on VHF is well-known.<\/p>\n<p>Not so well-known are the shortwave (HF) communications networks that must be operated by transoceanic flights.<\/p>\n<p>This is an ARINC station for San Francisco, California. I am located about 70 miles inland from this station. I assume ARINC is using a directional antenna system beamed westward toward the Pacific Ocean.<\/p>\n<p>I recorded this video of an ARINC station late last night for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9xWNj5dBXY4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">my YouTube channel<\/a>.<\/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\/9xWNj5dBXY4?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 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9xWNj5dBXY4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here to view on YouTube.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many thanks, Dan!<\/p>\n<p>I enjoy monitoring air traffic on VHF and often forget that when I&#8217;m outside the range of an airport&#8217;s tower, I can still hop on HF and often hear international traffic. Thanks again!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Dan Hawkins, who writes: Air traffic bands on VHF is well-known. Not so well-known are the shortwave (HF) communications networks that must be operated by transoceanic flights. This is an ARINC station for San Francisco, California. I am located about 70 miles inland from this station. I assume ARINC [&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":[5984,3,43],"tags":[4163,4936,5259,4093],"class_list":["post-26587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","tag-aeronautical-hf","tag-aviation-monitoring","tag-daniel-hawkins","tag-videos"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-6UP","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":43738,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/live-frequencies-for-hf-atc-traffic\/","url_meta":{"origin":26587,"position":0},"title":"Live Frequencies for HF ATC Traffic","author":"Thomas","date":"June 7, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Dan Van Hoy (VR2HF), who writes: Like many, I enjoy listening to HF ATC traffic, all on USB, of course. 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