Exam over yesterday.
Airband? U can get the triband radio. Else try looking for discontinued icom 2200. Got Airband freq. BUt U can listen only. Cant tx.

U want Handy? Mobile? Or Station?

Both can be used at home by connecting them to a base antenna. For rx only, you could either homebrew, commercial or amateur antenna.

Lowyat has a shop that sells radios and antennas but I believe most of the radios are China made one. They're cheap but I've no idea if they'll do AM (airband). I've a Yaesu FT-60R which is a handheld and could receive airband. Cost around RM600 and you could get it from the big two ham radio shops here in Klang Valley. One Communications at Sec13 Shah Alam, near the stadium, the other is Wave Communications at Sri Gombak.

Mine is not as good, I've only these ...



That is not for receiving the airband on VHF, but it could receive the airband on HF. You need a radio which could receive a single side band (SSB) to monitor the HF. I've Diamond X50 which I don't use to monitor airband but it could be used for it, from my house in Sg Buloh, I couldn't receive the transmission from KLIA Tower, but I could receive the one from the aircraft. Subang Tower is fine.

Yes, it is possible to connect your handheld to the external antenna, what you need is just a proper connector, it is normally the SMA to UHF connector. You could get it from those shops too. You don't need a lot of power to monitor, but with a good base antenna, with 5W from handheld, you could go quite far (depending on your location).

I'm around 10km away from Subang Airport, and nope, with just the rubberyducky (short antenna), I couldn't get Subang Tower, need to use the external antenna for it.

On SSB and airband, if you just want to monitor the frequencies, I'll suggest to go for those world radio which should be cheaper. There are few receivers with support for airband, SSB, AM and they're affordable too. One of them is TECSUN PL-660, review can be found here. This radio can be had for around RM450, available from lelong and some other website locally. The FT-60R is actually meant for ham radio operator with extra feature of monitoring airband frequencies and you're limited to the VHF/UHF bands while the world radio, you can monitor more frequencies. Other world radios that you could try are those made by Sony (ICF series, look for the bands you could monitor) and ETON world radio (the only sold by RadioShack locally don't have the SSB nor airband).

There are many hams here in Malaysia, we've two classes, A & B. There are around 500+ A-class licensed operators and almost 10K B-class operators but I believe only half are activate. Yes, my callsign can be found in QRZ.COM Search on the image I posted before, you can find my callsign there

Hope the above helps.