[Xastir] ADS-B (planes)

[Curt Mills]

'cuz we have two helo's in our county for SAR, and I'm in SAR...  And 'cuz
I can.

On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 2:41 PM, Dexter N Muir <dexy at xtra.co.nz> wrote:

> Y'know I'm left wondering: Why 'planes? I mean, xastir - and APRS - is
> great for activity reporting and hazard alerts - fire, flood, quake etc -
> even its under-utilised messaging, particularly in SAR activity - but why
> aircraft? I'd think anyone wanting to watch them would have hardware to get
> info off-air or know of specific ADS-B feeds, and have software already
> available to display same. Anything capable of running xastir should be
> able to do ADS-B stuff alongside or instead at need - why clutter or
> feature-creep Amateur/SAR with that? Just because you can?
>
> 73
> Dex, ZL2DEX
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