[Xastir] New script: ads-b.pl for snagging airplane positions

Brian Heaton geekdownrange at gmail.com
Thu Feb 25 17:04:24 EST 2016


Curt,

What antenna are you using? One of the coax collinears with construction
articles on the bet or something different?
On Feb 25, 2016 2:02 PM, "Curt Mills" <curt.we7u at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yea, already added that but haven't checked it in yet. Also switched on AGC
> in the RTL dongle and am receiving many more airplanes:
>
>   ./dump1090 --interactive --net --aggressive --enable-agc
>
> On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 1:37 PM, David Brooke G6GZH <xastir at dbrooke.me.uk>
> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 01:11:25PM -0800, Curt Mills wrote:
> > > I should have thought of that! If you're using the same callsign to
> > inject
> > > as you're using in your Xastir instance, Xastir "adopts" those APRS
> Items
> > > as its own and starts retransmitting them. We use that to good effect
> in
> > > some instances to get Xastir to do that very thing.
> >
> > Ah OK. I've not really used Items but that would explain the delay if
> > it's maintaining an Item it thinks it is responsible for.
> >
> > > Switch to a different SSID for injection and that problem should go
> away.
> >
> > Thanks for the explanation. I'll do that.
> >
> > It might be worth a warning in the comments so that others can be saved
> > from the same embarrassment. 8-)
> >
> > David G6GZH
> >
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