Beginners guide to setting up a basic windows plane tracking system

[Channel Hopper]

My earlier post was in response to Ross getting a fraction of what you, or others get down south.

 

[Channel Hopper]

A quick search brings up this

AirportWatch | NATS gets planes to fly slightly slower in order to cut time waiting in Heathrow stacks

and in the past few days there have been a large number of them circling over our neck of the woods, which they only normally do under poor weather conditions.

Concorde was the only aircraft that was regularly seen above here.

 

[pontiend]

Can I join the club please.
After three or four days I think that I may have got it sorted.It took a lot of swotting on the net and the beginners thread to get this far.I had most of the same problems that jealen01 had.For a long time I only had a flashing status bar on Dump1090.Once I got that going the rest was not too bad.
Just managed to get a splat using info from the VRS Trouble shooting thread.Still a lot of messing about to get used to it. the Wales software is still giving me grief.It works until I change the area code to 40149.For RX4

 

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Can I join the club please.
After three or four days I think that I may have got it sorted.It took a lot of swotting on the net and the beginners thread to get this far.I had most of the same problems that jealen01 had.For a long time I only had a flashing status bar on Dump1090.Once I got that going the rest was not too bad.
Just managed to get a splat using info from the VRS Trouble shooting thread.Still a lot of messing about to get used to it. the Wales software is still giving me grief.It works until I change the area code to 40149.For RX4
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You have you location out, if I can find the posts I will link back to it.

 

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Post 243 onwards.

Virtual Radar Server - Trouble shooting!

Nice going and welcome to the club

 

[pontiend]

Do you mean this one Chris.It is a bit off -1.36.My true longitude is 1.49.The marker will not move now though.I will keep plodding away until I sort it.

 

[Analoguesat]

Ah now that bit is counter intuitive. I think its untick set current location, move the pin then tick it again. And restart the vrs programme. If that doesnt work paste the fiollowing code into VRS tools - options - website - intitial settings. Put your own lat.long in first though

 

[pontiend]

If I change the area code to 110148 code for RX3 it looks to be working.My area code though is RX 4 40149 Or have I got that the wrong way round.

 

[Analoguesat]

Also looking at the rx4 mlat server it looks like there is already a user called Barnsley so you may need to alter your nick (Barnsley1 maybe?) if it isnt you.

Massive coverage across much of the northern central half of the UK from round there.!

 

[pontiend]

You got it in one there Analoguesat.Sorted.Just spotted your post above re Splat .I will look at that.

 

[Analoguesat]

Ah good - Im glad to see it was something simple!

 

[pontiend]

Sorted moving the pin.I have to close the dialog box it can be moved then.Lat and Long about right now splat still the same though.There are lots of settings it is not surprising that I will have got some of them wrong.

 

[Analoguesat]

Receiver locations in the main VRS options has 2 places to set the lat/long for starters.

Aftwer each change make sure you close vrs down & restart it.

 

[Analoguesat]

You are uploading to rx4 on 360R. You have a ping out east of Bridlington atm

 

[pontiend]

Thanks Analoguesat.Getting a bit confused now.according to the map on lowflying wales I should be uploading to RX4.
Edit four cans probably do not help.

 

[pride21]

hi all i was reading this article with interest,could a Realistic PRO-2005 scanner be used,the freqency is 25Mhz-520Mhz and 760Mhz-1300Mhz,the receiver modes are wide fm,narrow fm and am aircraft,i am not sure if its ideal or not.

 

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hi all i was reading this article with interest,could a Realistic PRO-2005 scanner be used,the freqency is 25Mhz-520Mhz and 760Mhz-1300Mhz,the receiver modes are wide fm,narrow fm and am aircraft,i am not sure if its ideal or not.

It should be fine, try and tune in to 1090mhz.

You may or may not need a discriminator mod (a bit out of my area) I have only used the dongles for 1090.

Good luck and let us know, if you are on Facebook the 360 radar page will definitely know.

 

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Here’s the link to the Facebook page https://m.facebook.com/groups/701885719892641

 

[Analoguesat]

@pontiend here is the 1Barnsley mlat interaction coverage for today. Blackpool to well out into the North Sea thats very respectable for your first attempt

 

[pontiend]

Thank you Analoguesat.That is nice to know.
I am in the process of writing a reply to post in the VRS thread.It is taking a while I am not very good at explaining things.
What I have done is go back to a older image where the SDR software has never been installed.,reason being I have done that much try this and try that to get the programs working that I could not be sure that something that I had done was causing the Splat problem.I now have a lean clean system.Dump1090/Wales mlat/VRS installed.All that I have done is set my location ect to display the Slat.Still not working properly.I am working my way through VRS thread now.The tip from Chris #97 looked promising No go though.The settings page with results is from inital setting in VRS Options. todays grabs below.