Cheap radio to eavesdrop ATC

[radioguy01]

Hi all,

I live about a mile from my airport. Is there any cheap radio I can buy to tune in and listen to ATC frequencies? Like a CB or police scanner?

 

[Jim Logajan]

If you know how to solder and build electronic kits, Ramsey Electronics sells several air band radio receivers:

http://www.ramseyelectronics.com/

The cheapest appears to be their AR1C model. I have no idea how good it is. I bought and built their AR2C model a while back as a project to try out a new soldering iron. But there isn't much traffic to listen to where I live, so it is gathering dust.

 

[Jim Logajan]

If you're posting, you have a computer. liveatc.net

That only works if someone else near his airport has set up a receiver and is feeding liveatc. Liveatc covers a tiny sliver of all airports anyway.