Hi everyone,
I'm new here on the forum and I set up an ADS-B feeder less than a week ago with an RTL-SDR USB dongle. I'm using the dongle's stock antenna next to the window at my house in the southern suburbs of Sydney.
Unfortunately, the neighbours' houses block my line of sight to the NW and SE as the antenna's not up high enough, and there's a slight ridge for the 180 degrees in between those two compass points also. Between the other 180 degrees, however, my range is quite good, and I get reception out almost to Parkes, Young, Canberra and Moruya (around 275 km/150 nm). I'm surprised that the tiny bundled antenna pulls in signals from so far away. I've attached a screenshot from Virtual Radar Server with my range plot – each circle is 30 km.
My next step, hopefully, is to get the antenna onto the roof so that I can get unobstructed views in all directions. Unfortunately, getting a higher gain antenna is out of my budget at the moment.
I'm currently sharing in Planeplotter as 'jn' and on Flightaware as 'eastons'.
Last edited by Easton S; 25th August 2014 at 12:06 PM.
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