[Bradford] Monday's meeting

[shi]

I'm definitely interested in knowing what you've learnt. Sounds exciting!

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shi
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On 26 March 2014 19:58, Alice Kaerast <alice at kaerast.info> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Following on from David's talk last week I decided to have another go at
> monitoring aircraft overhead directly without having to use the likes of
> Flightradar24.
>
> Well I bought the kit off of ebay on Monday (a £12 DAB/FM/TV receiver
> running an RTL chipset), and today I'm sat running Dump1090 (
> https://github.com/antirez/dump1090) with the basic TV aerial out of the
> box, and I'm watching a handful of aircraft all over the north of England.
>  With a more frequency-specific antenna placed outside who know's how much
> more I'd see.
>
> This is ADS-B, running at 1090Mhz, Automatic Depedent Suirveillance
> Broadcast.  A system which aircraft use to let other planes know their
> speed, height, location, squawk, callsign, etc.  Instead of using radar to
> work out a plane's position, the plane announces where it is using its own
> GPS system.  It's the system that FlightRadar24 is based on, but what
> Flightradar24 won't give you is the aircraft which have ADS-B but which
> aren't sending location information (eg. the Boeing C-17a currently
> overhead)
>
> One can also monitor ACARS, which airlines use to send short messages
> between their aircraft and ground staff.  This operates on the standard
> airband, so is easy to decode with a standard airband radio and some
> software running on your laptop.
>
> I'll bring along my kit to the next meeting if people are interested, I
> may have started decoding other things by then too.
>
> Regards
> Alice
>
>
>
>
> On 23 March 2014 21:52, John R. Hudson <j.r.hudson at virginmedia.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> With apologies for the delay, there is finally a report up on Monday's
>> meeting.
>>
>> John
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