Friday, 16 April 2021

2 Nice "catches" on Stockholm Radio

 

Heard the pilot of this aircraft calling Stockholm Radio on 11345khz this morning (0957UTC) from Paris Le Bourget for a selcal check. He spoke to the Stockholm controller partly in Swedish.
The aircraft is an Airbus A318 Corporate Jet (Elite) operated for Hamza Al-Kholi (hence the HK on the tail), a Saudi Businessman. I read recently on the Civil Aviation forum that these pre-flight calls on HF must take place after re-fuelling for safety purposes, which I found interesting.

The second interesting flight was a Smartwings Beoing 737-800 OK-TSF calling for 2 radio checks on his way from Prague to Bacau, Romania

Listening mostly to VHF, where I get my fair share of Ryanair and British Airways, it is really cool to hear such an unusual range of aircraft and companies on Stockholm Radio.

Monday, 12 April 2021

Ethiopian Freighter on 11300 khz

 


After reminiscing about former HF activity on 11300 on the Civilian Aviation forum, I decided I'd listen in for a while last night and I caught a huge signal from this Ethiopian Airlines Cargo 737-800 as it entered Khartoum airspace on its way to Addis Ababa from Benin. All this on a little Tecsun PL660 with it's telescopic whip in the kitchen!