Clt controller described total frequency receiver failures; alleging event was unsafe.

Attributes
ACN	826167
Time
Date	200903
Local Time Of Day	1801-2400
Place
Locale Reference	CLT.Airport
State Reference	NC
Environment
Flight Conditions	IMC
Light	Night
Person 1
Function	Approach Departure
Qualification	Air Traffic Control Fully Certified
Events
Anomaly	Other Frequency Failure

Narrative:

All frequencies I had (127.7 and 119.0) were unusable for receiving (back-ups included). I had to get aircraft to identify every acknowledgement. This is unacceptable and unsafe. There was so much interference that it was sometimes hard on the transmitters.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: CLT Controller described total frequency receiver failures; alleging event was unsafe.

Narrative: All frequencies I had (127.7 and 119.0) were unusable for receiving (back-ups included). I had to get aircraft to identify every acknowledgement. This is unacceptable and unsafe. There was so much interference that it was sometimes hard on the transmitters.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site as of April 2012 and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.