ADS-B setup poll

737mech · Oct 21, 2014

Just wondering how you guys are setup for decoding?
Antenna
Coax
RTL Dongle /Radarbox/SBS-1 etc?

Has anyone determined the best antenna for ADS-B?

eorange · Oct 21, 2014

NooElec RTL2832, RG-6, ADSB#, and ADSBScope/VirtualRadar.

The best antenna for the money, hands-down, is the no-solder collinear. Unbelieveable performance. See this:

http://forums.radioreference.com/am...-no-solder-collinear-antenna.html#post2101866

looknlisten · Oct 21, 2014

eorange said:
The best antenna for the money, hands-down, is the no-solder collinear. Unbelieveable performance.

I second that opinion. Here is a snapshot of my coverage (CYQI) back in August (8-segment co-linear)

737mech · Oct 21, 2014

Here's my screenshot. Not using the collinear type antenna. I found an aircraft L-Band blade on Ebay and mounted it to a small aluminum plate. A few adaptors to get to MCX and into the rtl dongle. Then a long USB extender to the pc. Antenna atop my house, office pc downstairs. Plotting all altitudes in VRS green. Gives a nice idea of the range.

MtnBiker2005 · Oct 22, 2014

Antenna = DPD ADS-B Vertical
Receiver = Radarcape (feeding directly to PlanePlotter, FR24, FlightAware, PlaneFinder, VRS-World.com
VRS Software providing data for Live-Mode-S software, and MilAirComms1090 software.

Updated range available on VRS-World.com

vagrant · Oct 22, 2014

Receiver: SBS-1er
Antenna: DPD ADS-B
Coax: LMR-400
Software: Kinetic BaseStation & PlanePlotter

kma371 · Oct 22, 2014

Main location
Receiver Beast
Antenna DPD
Coax LMR 400

Remote receiver
Receiver RTL Nooelec
Antenna DPD
Coax LMR 400

K5MPH · Oct 22, 2014

Recever-Beast
Antena-DPD
Coax-LMR-400
Location-KBRO

jazzbassNick · Oct 22, 2014

Receiver-Dongle on RPi
Antenna-Homemade coax collinear
Coax-RG6 Quad Shield

Your_account · Oct 22, 2014

the important qestion is how high are you. In my case i use an simple and small TV Antenna onboard an Aircraft and you can believe the range is amazing.

BTFire21 · Oct 22, 2014

Hello All

I am using an SBS 3 with a modified 900 MHZ control station antenna at 50' with LMR 400 for my plot.

SRSP2282 · Oct 23, 2014

Im using the following setup:

Hardware:
RTL stick
Homebrew colinear antenna in the attic
~50ft RG6
A cheap satalite preamp (want to upgrade to a better LNA)
1090 notch filter (Mini-Circuits VBFZ-1065-S+)

Software:
Dump1090
Virtual Radar Server
Planeplotter (I share my data to help with MLATs)

Feed my Data to:
Flightradar24.com
flightaware.com (via planeplotter)
Milaircomms.com

Here is a screenshot of my range using Virtual Radar Server
(Light gray is range for aircraft flying lower that 10,000 ft)

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