ADSB DX?

 

Greetings to one and all! Its been a while so I hope you are all doing well and enjoying the season so far.

I have been busy working, having fun with the family and of course plenty of radio activities in between.

I have upgraded the shack a little with new radios and other cool items which I shall feature on a follow on post. This post is a little bit away from Ham radio and is another side of the radio hobby which is also lots of fun and pretty reasonable to build and set up. I am talking about the PiAware aircraft tracking setup that I have been upgrading you can see it in the video below. It consists of: PiAware Software FlightAware1090Mhz USB dongle running PiAware Software, 1090 ADS-B antenna, 1090 bandpass filter and a Raspberry Pi 3 with a network connection. 

The 60cm long 1090Mhz ADS-B antenna is working well on my mast which is high above the house the range has improved and by also adding the 1090 Band Pass filter I have a lot more flights with lower altitudes making it into the receiver. 

Its most definitely lots of fun seeing the cool stuff pop up and receiving a signal with data which is decoded into position, speed, direction, altitude, squawk as well as signal type, strength and source. I have been listening on the Airband and tracking on the ADS-B screen, with the World as it is there are always lots of Military aircraft to track and sometimes they come right over and actually get a real-time position report fed back to the onboard ADS-B 1090Mhz Transponder (S Band) from my station. All of the ground station receiving Flight Aware feeders (Mine is the PiAware FlightAware) are linked together via the internet and talk to each other providing an accurate position with the use of satellite GPS which gathers info from the aircraft and combined with FlightAware feeders accurately provides aircraft position tracking in real-time known as M-LAT. Its all great fun! I tell you more next time. 73 

The video above shows My FlightAware ADS-B Aircraft Tracking set up working and includes radio reception on the Airband.