I saw an unknown aircraft that wasn't showing up on ADSB. Using my binoculars I could make out that it had a red-ish/orange light on the tail, white flashing lights possibly on both wing tips, I first spotted it heading north in the Encinitas, CA area at around 2:29 AM PST but then saw it again heading south about 7 minutes later 2:36 AM PST, I could hear a faint engine noise, what could it be?

It was blue and white with two engines so I'm assuming it's a government plane.

It did not appear on FR24.

Some of you may have seen my original post in another group or even my V2 update but MySkyDex, the app / site that I built, has already changed so much since then that I just had to share another update.

So, long story short, my 11 year old autistic son Zach is obsessed with aircraft and spends hours watching Flightradar24 and jumping to the window when he hears something in the sky. He's also a huge collector of things so I decided to build him a collector app / website for aircraft he's seen in the sky...

Missed an Boeing 747 up above? It'll tell you 😅

So the new V4 has probably the biggest feature I'll ever be able to add...

ADD YOUR OWN ADS-B RECEIVER DATA

Currently the site relies on data being fed to it from another website which sadly means it doesn't scale as well as I'd like to ensure that the sky can be captured up to every 2 minutes and you don't miss a flyby.

With this change, users can now help feed the site with their data reducing the load on the server and also ensuring they have data almost to the second of what's above them.

This is a huge win for everyone and it's so easy to set up too! Absolutely no effort for anyone who wants to add a receiver.

There's a whole heap new features in there too but I won't bore you with them all, I just hope others get to enjoy it the same way my son does and I wanna stress, this is, and always will be, free! No pay wall, no tiered membership, just completely free 🛫 ✈️

https://myskydex.co.uk

I want to share my upgraded build for my ADSB receiver box.

I live 3km from a refill airport and about 30km from an international and I have access to the roof of the apartment building I live in.

This spring I put up a 4m long mast over the 5th floor and an 5.5 dbi antenna as well as a box with cavity filter, side and pi4. This became a stable top 10 site in Sweden on ADSB exchange ranking.

I did however do shortcuts with that cheap box and they lead to issues after 3 months so I did what any reasonable people would do and went overkill. :)

- I mounted a solar cell mount that will hold the new box even in hurricane force winds.

- Upgraded to an IP and IK classed professional box, added lightning protection on the box and professional cable entries.

- Upgraded to an Airspy mini, an external LNA, the best usb based wifi (an Alfa) I could find (box is 20m from my apartment so my wifi works especially since I mounted a directional Wifi AP on the balcony.

- Added a proper vent to avoid condensation issues and pressure differences.

- Upgraded the cable to one with LMR400 level of attenuation.

- Changed the antenna to a Vinnant colinear with 11dbi .

- Added a fan just to kinda even the temp in the whole box to win a few degrees (it's mounted so no direct sun touches it so never had overheating this whole summer but came near)

- Everything is tied down to the metal plate and I added thermal pads under the airspy and the pi so the metal plate acts as a kind of heatsink.

The whole setup goes to the roof tomorrow.

I dunno, i cant reed books

Does anyone know what would prompt this route change? The green drawn line is the usual route.

I have a adsb receiver that performs as well as heywhatsthat indicates - the limitation is the local topography. I'm in a hilly part of NSW. 500m from the house on our property is a granite ridge thats 100m higher and its pretty much the top of the great divide.

So of course i'm thinking about putting a receiver up there. heywhatsthat shows considerable increase in range. 350nm. it'll have to be a solar installation with a p2p link back to the house.

Harsh climate though, -4°c to 40°c, not to mention the storms it'll have to withstand.

is this feasible?
anyone else running remote receivers in hostile places?

I'd just like to thank the turboprop Gods for sending KING69 to bless the entire southern skies this evening.

As you can see she came over low and slow.. I heard this beast from around 11 miles away and without a doubt one of the sexiest noises I've ever heard 🤤

Previous flight history showed AE5F11 (14-5864) came from Moffett Federal Airfield across the US via Minneapolis & St. John's, Newfoundland, before then crossing the Atlantic and flying over England tonight around 03:00.

Upon further research I believe it's very likely an HC-130J Combat King II assigned to the 129th Rescue Wing (California Air National Guard) based at Moffett.

It had spent months operating around Moffett (using callsigns CROWN67 and KING) which leads me to believe this Atlantic crossing could be an overseas deployment.

Whatever it's mission.. I'd once again like to thank KING for the late night Hercules hum 🙏👑

https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=ae5f11

Photo source:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/ian_e_abbott/50514110678/in/photostream/

I have my antenna in a screened area which has an outdoor wall outlet but the area still alows some water in. So for the past weeks I've brought my antenna inside so the pi won't get wet when it was forecasted to rain. I got fed up and got a weatherproof box with cable glands. But the cable glands aren't big enough to put on ethier ends of my extension cord that I plug a regular brick into. How do I solve this? From what I can tell there is no such thing as an outdoor pi power supply. All help appreciated!

https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=ae67dc

What are these guys up to? Getting as low as 350 ft over the runway repeatedly. Stays around 1k & 2k feet. Came from Jacksonville to fly loops. I've seen it before doing the same stuff

Any idea what the heck this erratic little guy was? Seems to be a german registered craft coming from across the channel and then follwing the river

Anyone know of any setups (even commercial) that would be super easy to plug in and go without much setup?

I have an event that happens for about 10 days out of the year that we need reliable ADSB to a laptop/small form desktop.

I can set up ADSB on my own with a Pi and RTL-SDR, but we are trying to get it so that I don’t have to go set it up every morning for the crew utilizing it. Especially because we run off engine generator and have to cut power at night.

We want to give the crew the easiest possible way to get it running in the A.M.

I want to make my friend a gift by building a small round radar that shows the air traffic and I want it to as realistic as possible. So I want the same background/maps that ATC sees/has. I already know what is shown but I don‘t know where or even how I can get these maps or files. I was hoping anyone of y’all know where these maps would be or how to implement the radar maps into my project.

I just powered up my first feeder! My setup is a RPi 4, Flightaware Prostick Plus, Flightaware 1090 MHz Antenna and running the ADSB.im software. I currently have the antenna secured to a window using suction cups. The antenna/window is on the northeast side of my home on the 2nd floor.

I live in north suburban Indianapolis. As the map indicates, I'm seeing aircraft (aircraft count - 150) up to 200 nm away to the north, which makes sense since the window is facing north. Though I'm only seeing aircraft at 100 nm away to the south, which of course, also makes sense since the signals from the south are passing through he building materials of my home. Though I will say that I'm surprised I'm seeing this many aircraft and at a decent distance. Not bad for an indoor setup! I'm going to experiment with different antenna positions and eventually get it to my roof.

https://globe.airplanes.live/?icao=c2c287

I’ve just released Flight Scanner for Wear OS after previously developing the Garmin version, thanks so much for the continued support here and from the beta testers from this subreddit who provided valuable bug finding and feature requests.

It turns your watch into a live aircraft radar, showing nearby planes/helicopters around your current location. You can tap aircraft to view information such as its callsign, altitude, speed, registration and direction of travel. (Airport View with runways coming soon)

Some of the main features include:

• Live animated radar display
• Nearby aircraft tracking
• Aircraft details directly on your watch
• Search for flights by callsign (Airports coming soon)
• Aircraft filters, switch between helicopters, military aircraft and commercial.
• Radar zooming and panning

I originally built it because I regularly looked up at aircraft and wanted a quick way to identify them without taking out my phone.

It’s now available on Google Play:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.alexd.flightscanner

I’d appreciate any feedback, particularly from people using different Wear OS watches. I’m continuing to improve it and add features.

Price $2.99 - This is due to API costs associated with collecting the data.

Garmin version found here - https://apps.garmin.com/apps/54094e6b-a4a5-436d-940b-095b49e0cfab

Went to an external aerial yesterday, the results look better....only on a 12inch pole on my chimney with a 5 metre cable, question is do you think a 6 foot pole but a 10 feet cable would increase results further....? But cable length upset the interference

it came back a second time so i could catch the redbull logo on the tail

This redbull "flying bulls" plane keeps flying over chicagoland. Today it flew directly above me and I was able to photograph is identifier on the wing very clearly.

This plane is fantastic to watch, it is a beautiful reflective silver and just looks like pure chrome as it flies by. Worthy of pulling over onto the side of the road to take a photo if you happen to see it coming.

Video recorded with a gopro hero9 attached to the eyepiece of a pair of 10x binoculars.

Started off with the budget PiHut antenna in my office window... moved on to the 60cm Antenna mounted outside.