- #Planeplotter home location mod
- #Planeplotter home location full
- #Planeplotter home location software
- #Planeplotter home location Pc
- #Planeplotter home location plus
So over 24 hours the signal drifts back and forth.more noticeable on days when we have higher temps. Interestingly the signal drifts in two ways.I see a 10khz "jump" twice a day and then a slow drift over time.
#Planeplotter home location mod
Hi Titanium.I should make it clear that my comment was in no way a criticism of the PLL LNB, it was more aimed at my inability to do the mod ! The drift I see is only about 30khz, well within the design spec of the product. Could the AFC be widened to work with C-Band, or am I missing an important detail here?
#Planeplotter home location software
I'm wondering if Jonti's 'AERO' software could be tweaked to compensate for the LNB frequency drift? It already has AFC, which works very well when I tried it with L-Band. From past experience, anything that says that is usually out of reach financially. But then it gets expensive - the "Mux Tee" from Orbital Research says "Call for Pricing". After that, it should be much less risky adding the bridge wire and the other 3 components. While the osmocom pll lnbf modification does not require removing the circuit board from the case, the scariest part for me would be removing the crystal. On both attempts when I tried it some of the circuit traces on the board lifted up and killed it. It had about 1 mm more of it sticking out inside the tube than the Horizontal wire because of the way they attached it at the factory) Removing the circuit board from the case required unsoldering the RG6 center conductor. (I needed to remove the circuit board so I could access and shorten the rear antenna wire for better performance around 4000 MHz Vertical Polarity. JAERO turns the data burts into ACARS format.the latter is then sent to PlanePlotter which takes the positional information and plots the a/c on the map.Ĭlick to expand.I have ruined 2 Titanium C2W PLL LNBs in my modification attempts for something different last year.
#Planeplotter home location Pc
The dongle plugs into your PC SDR # software then processes the data and passes it via soundcard or virtual cable to JAERO. From the receiver/inserter, it is fed to a basic RTL type dongle. A voltage inserter can be used instead of the receiver if you prefer. Using a stable C Band lnb the satellite is located and the signals fed into a standard sat receiver which has loopthrough.
Initially this was just for L band, but once we realised that an 8metre dish was not required for the C band work, he set about processing the C band data The technique is relatively simple and should strike a chord with satellite enthusiasts. Late last year, a chap called Jonti created a piece of software which processed the data bursts from Inmarsat. Those reports, once processed can be plotted on the map.
#Planeplotter home location plus
The data contains house keeping info, plus those all important position reports. the signal is fired up to the satellite and then converted to C band for the earth bound downlink. The same principle applies to Aero H/H+ A/c contact ground stations via L band. However if you hooked up your C band dish to the same satellite, then you could monitor the other side via the C band downlink. It could be a little frustrating as only one side of the comms could be heard. Back in the early noughties I'm sure many of the forum members will recall monitoring Inmarsat L band analogue telephony.My main interest was picking up the NASA downrange comms on launch days.
#Planeplotter home location full
It seems fitting that now, following years of development and the introduction of many ground breaking techniques for a/c enthusiasts, it has come full circle to encompass Satellite ACARS as provided by ADS. PlanePlotter has been around for well over ten years.It was the first a/c tracking system for enthusiasts and started out as a network to plot ACARS. As can be seen from the above time lapse animation from PlanePlotter, our Oceans are teeming with a/c as they ply back and forth across the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans. The company conducted tests last year which were deemed successful in getting operators to speed up their installation of Sat Comm equipment. This was to encourage operators to log in with their location on a more frequent basis. Following the disappearance of MH370 back in 2014 Inmarsat offered to provide free 15 minute check ins for commercial Oceanic flights via their ADS system.