Decided to have a go at ADS-B

RustySpoons

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Finally got around to having a bash at this, dug out an old RTL-SDR Dongle, put the FR24 Image on a SD card and popped it in to a spare Raspberry Pi2 I had here.
For the Aerial I built a simple "Cantenna" It's thrown up on a painters pole using some WF100, just trying it out.

Used a Aldi New Potato Tin, drilled a hole and soldered a F Type coupler, poked all the bits out of the middle so I am just left with a thread either side:

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Got some WF100 and stripped it back, fitted a F Type as normal but leaving the dielectric over the centre core, trimmed to 69mm:

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Used amalgamating tape on the F Type, then fitted the it to the can using a F Type slim tool;

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Using some "Liquid Tape" I sealed up any holes on top of the "Cantenna"

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Using a Dremel I cut the tin to 69mm, measuring from the top of the thread:

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Using some hot melt glue I mounted the whole thing in a 100 Blank CDR Case:


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Lashed it up on top of a telescopic painters pole to test:

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Seems to be working :)

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Looking good - once you get Virtual Radar Server running your jaggies will look impressive :D
 

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If you have set your location you can set range rings in the main prog & then click on menu on the browser then receiver range to get something like this:

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Thanks, just set that up :)
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Just 3D printed a bracket so I can fix it to my Telescopic Painters pole, INOX/Stainless screws were used :)
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A nice variation on the usual colinears. Looks good too :)
Thank you :)

I will build a 1/2 wave and a 5/8th as well, see how they perform.
Just had to get something up today to get receiving, hadn't had chance to get around to it.
 

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