Southeast test day

[Shortwing]

Anyone in the south east fancy meeting up and trying out the units?

[brinzlee]

For sure...we have four units running over in Southend. EGMC. Where are you based

[captchaos]

If you fly over Lasham way let me know and I can at least see if I can pick you up on the ground

[AlanB]

If you fly over Lasham way let me know and I can at least see if I can pick you up on the ground

I'm running one out of Brimpton if you find that closer.

Let me know if your visiting.

[Paul_Sengupta]

I'm at Bourne Park. We should all get together.

[AlanB]

I'm at Bourne Park. We should all get together.

Good idea. Not been to Bourne.

Wx not playing ball at the moment.

[T67M]

I could be up for a test flight or two on Sunday - based at Redhill.

[Admin]

anyone doing a testflight, could you try an experiment of unplugging the DVB-T dongle so that no ADSB traffic is received.
There is a theory about noise from the DVB-T dongle saturating the 868mhz receiver
Thx
Lee

[Paul_Sengupta]

Interesting theory. CaptChaos, who couldn't receive my unit, was using the small DVB dongles, though I suspect most people are using those. I've been using these, as I had them already:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/USB-DVB-T-RTL-SDR-Realtek-RTL2832U-R820T-Tuner-Receiver-Dongle-PAL-IEC-Input-HC-/281782206999?hash=item419b874217:g:Z24AAOSwPcVV3EI3

They have the advantage of having a decent aerial socket, but the disadvantage of being bigger and the wrong colour!

With mine plugged into my Pi B along with the Wifi dongle, I was receiving CC at 5 miles or so.

[Winged_Jaguar]

Looking to experiment with different aerials for the TV/ADB-S Dongle with the micro socket or wish to use a home aerial to test/receive better ADB-S and/or TV, then a useful adapter to have is an "MCX plug to Coax Socket" adapter. Available from such places as Maplins (Code N62LN as at Nov'15).

[Paul_Sengupta]

Alternatively, just use a DVB dongle like I have... 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/DAB-DVB-T-USB-RTL-SDR-FM-Mini-Digital-TV-Stick-RTL2832U-R820T-Tuner-Receiver-/281360340406?hash=item41826215b6:g:kOYAAOSwDk5UEWxw

or

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/DVB-T-DAB-FM-Radio-Realtek-RTL2832U-R820T-software-defined-SDR-HDTV-Hot-/331349521661?hash=item4d25f874fd:g:txIAAOSwqu9VBnkJ

or the like!