ACARS over sat comm INMARSAT

[737mech]

So I bought the RTL-SDR V3 dongle and the blog antenna. Downloaded the sdr sharp and JAERO. a few others needed VB-Cable and Zadig. After some youtube how to I figured it out. Pretty cool setup! I did not expect how well it works. My friends think I passed the geek line. Oh well?

 

[BinaryMode]

I was always going to buy that antenna, but felt it was too high priced. Are you getting good RX on Inmarsat? Is the antenna outside?

 

[737mech]

Yes I set the antenna up on a camera tripod outside. A few back and forth adjustments and tilting helped.

 

[BinaryMode]

Cool. Can one permamount this type of antenna for Inmarsat? I'm not too sure.

 

[eorange]

So I bought the RTL-SDR V3 dongle and the blog antenna. Downloaded the sdr sharp and JAERO. a few others needed VB-Cable and Zadig. After some youtube how to I figured it out. Pretty cool setup! I did not expect how well it works. My friends think I passed the geek line. Oh well?

Very cool. Are you using the Patch antenna?

 

[737mech]

Yes I bought the RTL-SDR blog antenna V2. Connected with 50 ft run of KMR240 coax I found on Amazon. The RTL gets warm so I added heat sinks I had left over from a Pi project.

 

[737mech]

Pics of temp setup. I probably won’t set this up on my house yet. I want to get out camping and try different places. Plus you can aim at different sats in the sky.

 

[reconrider8]

Cool. Can one permamount this type of antenna for Inmarsat? I'm not too sure.

I did on my porch post and it works well. Havnt played with it in a while though. I need to get all the software back up and play some

 

[BinaryMode]

Sounds interesting then. I need to try this.