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MARSCAN
FORMERLY KNOWN IN FULL AS "THE MARITIMES SCANNING SITE", ESTABLISHED INITIALLY IN 1999.

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The MARSCAN website has been for the most part discontinued with the exception on a short page on Marine Radio listening
and the still-extensive Aeronautical pages linked below.
For radio information and discussion in general I suggest you go to www.radioreference.com It includes an Atlantic Canada section.
For information on amateur radio in the Maritimes try the Atlantic Amateur.

HISTORICAL NOTE : This site began in 1999 as a radio listening page covering Nova Scotia and the wider region. In the past this was the leading radio enthusiast site in the Maritimes and, during its heyday, was featured internationally in the Popular Communications and Monitoring Times magazines. Your host was one of several scanner gurus in the Maritimes who gained an overall knowledge of radio in this region, not as nosey content seekers, but rather as analysts of radio systems, and observers of interoperability and the lack of it. Today the scene has vastly changed, with the establishment of the Maritimes trunked radio system, and the accompanying shift to encrypted transmissions throughout the public safety sector. This site remains as an educational tool, featuring my present specialty, civil aeronautical radio.
AERONAUTICAL RADIO PAGES Frequencies, Charts, Explanations and More This is my main listening interest, with a specialty in the VHF band. RECOMMENDED TO START WITH THIS PAGE AND THIS ONE Introduction to Aero Scanning, and External Aero Links	AT AND AROUND HALIFAX INTERNATIONAL Frequencies, description, observation Clearance, De-Ice, Taxi and Takeoff Departures procedures and initial destinations Arrivals procedures including Approach fixes Webcams, Live Wind and RVR's, Official website Flightradar24, Flightaware, Planefinder ======= Page re other Local area fields: Shearwater Heliport plus Halifax peninsula helipads 126.2 and Porters Lake airfield 123.2 (Photos and other details included for the above) Shubenacadie DNR Heliport 123.2 Stanley Unicom 122.8 Debert Unicom 123.0	How they talk: The language of Aero Communications New article Dec 2023
		Runway designations. How runways are designated and why they change over time Revised Dec 2023
		Identifying Places Codes and Abbreviations for Airports, Radio Aids and Reporting Points.
		Identifying Aircraft Guide to Aircraft Registration Marks, Call Signs and Airline Codes
		Aero Radio Intro to the Aero Radio Bands, plus an aero Frequency List for the Maritimes.
		U.S. Military Aerial Refueling over Nova Scotia
		Listening to and Observing High-Flying Aircraft Passing over Nova Scotia. This is where you go if you want to know about the multitude of aircraft flying over our area on their way to and from Europe. REQUIRES RE-WRITING. may be partially overlapping with other pages
		Observing Aircraft on Your Computer
	Controlled Airspace and Sectors. Including low level and high level sector maps and frequency charts. This page briefly outlines tower control zones and terminal control areas but mostly focuses on the area control centre sectors and frequencies in this region. This is where you can see which centre frequencies are used where in our region. You need to get a handle on this if you want to listen effectively, or want to watch on the computer. But you may want to read about aero radio first (at the right)	ADDED PAGE Listening via a scanner versus Listening Via On-Line Feeds Oriented towards Aero Listening but also relevant to other Listening.
		Coming someday Simulcasting and Cross-Coupling in ATC Communications
QSL Collection A Blast from the Past: A Selection of my Radio Reception Verifications from the 60's and 70's. This is not my complete collection, and I may get around to posting the rest some day.