"Pred02" wrote in news:1124752412.873051.266350
@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com:

Hmm.. I cannot hear any frequencies on the airband. I tried tuning into
many of the local frequencies, but even with the search function on the
airband I cannot hear anything. There is a blank noise on 125.0, other
than that nothing. The scan function works fine with tunning to weather
and police/fire frequencies, but nothing for airband.

I suppose I am doing something wrong. I have the Pro-83.

Any suggestions?

Around Boston there must be quite a few active freqs.
Things to consider:

* All air comms are AM
* In search, use 25 khz steps [or 12.5 or 50] from 119 to 140 mhz
* You might hear only the aircraft side on the transmissions at 10 miles with
a rubber duck antenna.

Still, during any day you should have no problems finding active freqs as
aircraft travel to and fro.