[ML-General] Do we have any pilots?

[WebDawg]

What type of antenna does one need for this?

On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 3:57 PM, david <ainut at knology.net> wrote:

> Stratux now has a 978 component as well.  I have both running at this very
> moment at my home, running off a single RPi 2.
> Watching mine through it's web interface as well as overlaid on sectionals
> on a tablet running iFlyGPS.  *Great* traffic and weather awareness (when I
> can get the weather data - which is not often at home as there are no ads-b
> towers nearby.
>
> David M.
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> On 10/26/2015 03:31 PM, Kevin E. Ivey wrote:
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>> On 2015-10-26 13:29, david wrote:
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>>> Are there any pilots in the group?
>>>
>>> Or maybe anyone that likes to monitor airplanes going around,
>>> especially with the ADS-B?
>>>
>>> I've run across this really fun thing called 'stratux' that is (almost
>>> complete) ADS-B in and for less than $130.  Computer of choice for it
>>> at the moment is the Raspberry Pi 2.
>>>
>>> David M.
>>>
>>
>> As a professional and military pilot, I have operated in some scary
>> conditions and used ADS-B as a primary source of tracking where there is no
>> radar coverage.
>>
>> I have successfully used a Raspberry Pi and a cheap RTL-chip based dongle
>> to receive and serve position, speed, altitude and flight number
>> information on aircraft in a large, 200 Nautical mile area.  The Pi runs on
>> a wi-fi network and acts as a server for any web browser equipped device
>> and displays a map with all the aircraft.
>>
>> The Pi software is 1090dump, and there are many other applications for
>> receiving and displaying ADS-B data.  For a total investment of $40.00
>> (including the Raspberry Pi), I think that is a good project for pilots and
>> non-pilots who are curious about hos the system works...
>>
>> The commercial products are basically the same components in a sexy box,
>> with a sexy price.
>>
>> </.02>
>>
>> Kevin
>> K4IVE
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