What does everyone use for ADS-B and antenna?

[ki5gf]

Have PiAware up and running with MLat active feeding FlightAware. I received my 1090 filter but don't have the adapters for it. Ordered some SMA to F adapters but will not be here till next week sometime. Getting pretty good data so far but will be moving the antenna outside when I get more mast. Pretty happy so far!

Steve, please let me know how that filter works out for you. I've thought about getting one myself. Have heard good reports and bad ones too. I guess it depends on how much garbage your receiver hears close around your QTH.

 

[Thunderknight]

Second RPi delivered today. Will be making a 978 Mhz antenna and getting it up and running next weekend. I will move the 1090 antenna outside and higher when I add the new antenna. Getting some good tracking now and feeding it to FlightAware. Fun stuff

I know a little OT, but is there software to decode the 978 MHz signals now??

 

[SteveEJ]

Yup. Go to FlightAware forums and search for dump978. Not to the stage of dump1090 but it is an implementation and source code available. The version I saw is a Linux (RPi) version.

 

[SteveEJ]

Steve, please let me know how that filter works out for you. I've thought about getting one myself. Have heard good reports and bad ones too. I guess it depends on how much garbage your receiver hears close around your QTH.

Will do Steve. Don't like the SMA connectors. I ordered some SMA to F adapters on eBay.
Hopefully it will help with a very close cell tower!