FlightAware ADS-B

[Matt R]

Originally Posted by Steve McGinley

Would be good to see a map, which you can read, exactly where the SYD feeders are.

Not a map, but you can build a map with it.
http://g4est1.no-ip.org/MyWeb/g4est/..._published.php

[Easton S]

Originally Posted by Steve McGinley

Would be good to see a map, which you can read, exactly where the SYD feeders are.

I have made a map using Google Earth (see attachment).

If anyone knows who ed, vl or xz are, I can add them to the map.

[Noel White]

Good to see the auto MLATs are up and working well.

Thanks to those who are participating in the project. It's been a long time to get this up and running so well. Thanks especially to the Sydney SMU, whether it's Steve or Mark.

[Steve McGinley]

Noel

It appears its both of us at the moment, not sure how that works, not sure how all this auto mlat stuff works under the hood, but something is working well at the moment.

Lets hope it stays that way.

Steve

[Col H]

Thanks Donald.

I have submitted an invite request.


Col

[Easton S]

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'.

[Robert.M]

I'm not in Sydney but share ADS-B from Wagga.

I host a FR24 receiver (F-YSWG1) which has a great range for it to be located in a valley (~190 AMSL) and also picks up GND AC on the runway and on the taxiway (from the runway to around the disused control tower). I can't share the FR24 box data.

With FlightAware (YFDN), I've brought my RTL2832U/R820T USB dongle (using a DIY coax collinear antenna) back online with the use of a laptop but soon to be Raspberry Pi. The range is less (north is worse), a lot slower as well and doesn't pick-up GND.