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Good digging.
I'm a little bit deeper into the hole I think. I've got a scanner on my desk and listen to ATC all day while I work :D
I think this is the first time I have admitted this. I also use my scanner to intercept voice and video signals from the ISS when it passes over.
I probably need help.
Stonehedge-
Ha! You are officially worse than me :P
Everyone else is probably thinking that we're planespotters but for me it's more about wanting to know what's going on, if that makes sense. Finding out the plane that kept buzzing round in circles high above our place was a spy plane probably didn't help!
Is is interesting? I imagine most of it is very routine?
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You might know about this already but it's weather related so I'll post it here. You can use a shortwave radio and some software to download weather charts over RadioFax:
http://www.blackcatsystems.com/software/multimode/fax.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_VcK1283Y0
Not sure how much it's still used in the age of satellite internet but it's for ships to get charts when they're in the middle of the ocean.
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Colonel_of_Truth
Same here! Possibly not something to be proud of. Have flight radar on my phone to check on anything unusual so know the patterns fairly well. Or thought I did. Like you say if it typically varies on more of a day-to-day basis - or that's what I thought - turns out it's the time of year and in April and May it's quite common to have longer periods of northeasterly winds:
https://rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/wea.301
This study also concluded that "years with a low frequency of northeasterly winds in May are slightly more likely to precede a warmer summer than usual". So if it carries on like this next month it probably won't be a scorcher.