View Full Version : Interesting comms last night - MEL
vee1-rotate
11th Sep 2008, 05:30
An interesting, obviously hoax, communication was overheard on the Melbourne Radar frequency last night approx 2230. Person came on frequency announcing a Mayday with some less that glamorous words used. Other aircraft on frequency were queried re ops normal.
Exchange can be heard on the archived liveatc.net feed link below, relevant section is approx 22mins 50secs into the recording.
http://archive-server.liveatc.net/ymmb/YMMB-Sep-10-2008-1200Z.mp3
Anyone know what became of it, or if those sort of transmissions can be traced any way?
Dragun
11th Sep 2008, 07:17
Are you sure it was at the 22min 50sec mark? I couldn't hear anything there.
Adamastor
11th Sep 2008, 07:25
Try about 29:05 and again 30 seconds or so later.
vee1-rotate
11th Sep 2008, 07:34
apologies, yes, starting from about 28:50 is just before the transmissions...
Aussie Insider
11th Sep 2008, 08:06
Mayday Mayday Mayday im gonna fu*&ing crash yo!
That was what i heard
wesky
11th Sep 2008, 08:22
Sad... very very very sad.
sthaussiepilot
11th Sep 2008, 08:27
28:58
Mayday Mayday Mayday im gonna fu*&ing crash yo!
29:31
Why dont you fu#kin fight me you.. *garbled*
Real mature.....
Wasnt there talk of locking the freq.'s to anything but A/C or something?
Some people need to grow up...
Aussie Insider
11th Sep 2008, 08:29
Tense moments for ATC, Hijacking would have certainly gone through his head!
Capt Wally
11th Sep 2008, 09:46
One often ears such rubbish on the R/T, often on 121.5 to!
With transceievers readily avaliable anybody can play merry hell on any freq.
It would be great to have some sort of technology that links all transmissions to its origin, licensed radios only.
As`wesky' said, sad, very very sad!:bored:
CW
satmstr
11th Sep 2008, 09:56
what a idiot !!! maybe it time to bring in Digital Encrypted radios to stop these d@#kheads :mad: , i know it will cost alot to upgrade everyone so probably never happen due to cost etc etc
Sunstar320
11th Sep 2008, 10:13
yes, quite sad. Are people really that bored these days...
On a lighter note....at 30:25 an aircraft on descent reports (with hesitation), "...received the info".:confused:
ATC at 30:29 "..Information X-Ray".
Aircraft at 30:32: "Thanks...I forgot to write it down" :O
AussieNick
11th Sep 2008, 10:34
sounds like it was broadcast on a discreet frequency that the controllers aren't on. Live ATC scanners get every freq in range. Sounds like who ever gave the person a serve was out of range of the scanner.
Icarus53
11th Sep 2008, 12:34
maybe it time to bring in Digital Encrypted radios to stop these d@#kheads
Unfortunately mate (and regardless of the feasibility anyway), most encrypted radios will receive a signal sent in plain - just that the unencrypted radio won't be able to understand what everybody else is saying.
Consequently, the plain signal will still go out over the channel and annoy the P#ss out of all and sundry. Knobs.
Buster Hyman
11th Sep 2008, 13:47
Sounds like the batteries in his l@zer Pen expired.....(tosser):=
bushy
12th Sep 2008, 03:34
Our VHF radio system is about sixty years old, and very crude.
Fifty years ago the english had VHF direction finders in towers so they could get an instant bearing on a radio transmission. I cannot understand why we have not used them.
MaxspeedSlowdown
12th Sep 2008, 06:56
Fifty years ago the english had VHF direction finders in towers so they could get an instant bearing on a radio transmission. I cannot understand why we have not used them.
Alice Springs Tower had one. Was taken out circa 1995. Apprarently it was blamed as the source of interference on a local AM band radio station.
Can't understand how a RX can do this but anyway it was removed.
It was very handy, especially when aircraft called inbound on the 180 Radial, and turned up entering the ciruit from the North. When it was taken out, we used to ask these guys what their departure AD was.