Irish Airspace

[GrahamDuke]

Does anyone have the locations of the atc transmitter sites in the Republic of Ireland?

My airband friend has recently moved to Killarney

Thanks

[CamelhAir]

Not the sort of information to be sharing in a public domain.
An airband spotter can hear the transmissions perfectly well without being anywhere near the transmitter, as he would know if he actually was a spotter. So the question is, why would you want information such as this?

[GrahamDuke]

Firstly, as VHF transmissions are "line of sight", a receiver must be in a reasonable location, within approximately 50 miles of a ground transmitter, if the controller transmissions are to be received satisfactorily.

Obviously, aircraft transmissions are usually no problem for the same reason.

My friend lives in Killarney near some very high ground and I guess the reception is poor for this reason.

In the UK there are several publications giving the precise locations of NATS transmitters and the frequencies transmitted from each of them. I just thought there might be the same kind of publication available in the Republic of Ireland.

[Inca_Gold01]

from the publicly availaible and published unabashed on the internet Ireland AIP:

ENR 2.1-10 AIP
26 OCT 06 IRELAND

AIRAC AMDT 51 IRISH AVIATION AUTHORITY
SHANNON FIR/UIR SECTOR FREQUENCIES

SERVICE OR
IDENTIFICATION CALL SIGN
FREQUENCY
(MHz) SECTOR

SHANNON CONTROL 131.15 Cork Sector Freq
SHANNON CONTROL 135.6 SOTA Sector Freq
SHANNON CONTROL 134.275 Shannon Sector Freq
SHANNON CONTROL 124.7 Shannon (South of line
Galway/Dublin above FL
075)/SOTA Sector Freq
SHANNON CONTROL 119.075 Shannon FIR (North of line
Galway/Dublin FL
075)Sector Freq
SHANNON CONTROL 121.5 Emergency Freq
SHANNON CONTROL 132.15 BABAN/DEVOL Sector
Freq
SHANNON CONTROL 127.5 Shannon FIR below FL075
in Class G airspace wishing
to avail of FIS
SHANNON ACC
SHANNON/SOTA CENTRE 121.7 Oceanic Clearance
Delivery Frequency
GND to GND Only
SHANNON CONTROL 135.230 SOTA Sector Freq
Sectors may be combined at discretion of Shannon ACC in manner best suited to traffic flow


Hope this helps
(Your book is glorious)

[54north15west]

I know i know but i aint telling you......questionable as to why you want to know where the transmitters are ????

[GrahamDuke]

No more than innocent interest so that my hobby of scanning can be improved.
If the locations are known, simple directional antennas can pick up otherwise unheard controller transmissions.

However, I now have the details from another source but thanks anyway

[GrahamDuke]

Thanks very much for comprehensive reply and your kind comment about my book.