zonian149
Member
I would like to encourage anyone the the Jacksonville, Duval County area to seriously consider running the software PlanePlotter. All you need is an inexpensive R820T SDR dongle, an antenna for ADS-B (homebrew or purchased $40) some coax, connectors and a computer of course. There are some interesting things that can be tracked locally and with only a couple more people doing it we can cover most of duval and surrounding areas. I live in east central duval, so it would be nice to have some coverage in the North, West and South of duval. The setup of PlanePlotter is a little bit of work, but there are excellent tutorials online to get you up and running. There is also a great PlanePlotter Yahoo group that has lots of help available from many users. Please consider doing it if you have any interest at all in the monitoring of local aircraft.--Gary