ADS-B Host of the Week: 🏆 Fox Johnson aka simtra
Nearest Airport: KVQQ-Cecil (Jacksonville, FL, US)
Receiver Setup: PiAware with Mode-S (1090 MHz) and UAT (978 MHz)
FlightAware Member For: 13 years
Longest Streak: 828 days
hubs.li/Q045T-Nd0#flightaware#bigdata#avgeeks
ADS-B Host of the Week: 🏆 Fox Johnson aka simtra
Nearest Airport: KVQQ-Cecil (Jacksonville, FL, US)
Receiver Setup: PiAware with Mode-S (1090 MHz) and UAT (978 MHz)
FlightAware Member For: 13 years
Longest Streak: 828 days
hubs.li/Q045T_Fl0#flightaware#bigdata#avgeeks
Is it a bird,
is it a plane?
No,
It's an Amazon Prime Air MK30 Drone on its first proper test flight out of the Darlington Fulfilment Centre earlier today.
The service is expected to fully launch later this year for customers in the Darlington area.
Tracked by one of our very own,
on his Piaware.
#Amazon#drones#delivery
It's not super hard to do either just a bit of wiring things up...hardest part is the python to do the display which isnt bad at all.
Antenna - > Flightaware filter -> piaware -> python data output -> Cortextm4-> display
Just for PiAware operation any microSD from a reputable brand will suffice.
I've been using the same one in my FlightFeeder for more than 8 years now and the only thing that died was the flight stick inside it 🤓
That’s very similar to my setup!
However, I have an NVMe hat on my Pi with a 500gb SSD I run PiAware from. Long term, I’ve found most SD cards don’t stand up to the I/O of always-on operation.
I also don’t have the PoE. That would be really nice to have.
The workings of ADS-B set-up:
Raspberry Pi running PiAware copied into a micro-SD card, along with a receiver dongle, 1090 MHz filter, and ADS-B antenna. A POE splitter to allow the rig to run via power over Ethernet.
This month’s featured host krocheck personally hosts 3 PiAware receivers, but the photos of his special site he shared with us is hosted directly at the show center at Oshkosh when EAA AirVenture occurs.
#flightaware#bigdata#avgeeks#Oshkosh
This month’s featured host krocheck personally hosts 3 PiAware receivers, but the photos of his special site he shared with us is hosted directly at the show center at Oshkosh when EAA AirVenture occurs.
#flightaware#bigdata#avgeeks#Oshkosh
Nice, if you are using an SDR its fun also tracking the REMOTE ID signals from drones which is kinda like their ADS-B. If you use a decent antennae you can pick them up out a few miles. If you like PiAware you might also like Raspberry Shake for seismic tracking and historical data and you can do low frequency wave tracking with Rapberry Shake too which gets kinda interesting if you derive theoretical models for some alleged UAP propulsion types. The do it yourself kit is pretty reasonable and you can 3D print a better housing design if you want. Or you can order their nice housing off Digikey for cheaper if you can find it.
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