New Stations Added

[Ian Melville]

Between Chippenham and Marlborough in Wiltshire

[Vince]

Anyone know who owns CalneW?

Paul

Yes

[PaulRuskin]

Anyone know who owns CalneW?

Paul

Yes

Excellent.  Would you like to share - at least with me?  (paul@ruskin.me.uk).

I manage Calne, and will put the owner in touch.

Paul

[Vince]

CalneW is my setup which I intend to move to the airstrip once I have all the bits assembled.

It will run of battery charged by a solar panel, have a 4G internet connection and uses a aerial I picked up at the LAA rally.

Once moved I’ll look at building another for CalneW and then mount the aerials on the roof and replace the FR24 in the loft.

[PaulRuskin]

CalneW is my setup which I intend to move to the airstrip once I have all the bits assembled.

It will run of battery charged by a solar panel, have a 4G internet connection and uses a aerial I picked up at the LAA rally.

Once moved I’ll look at building another for CalneW and then mount the aerials on the roof and replace the FR24 in the loft.

Great.  Which airstrip?

Ping me an email with your email address, and I'll put you in touch with the owner of Calne.

Paul (paul@ruskin.me.uk)

[Vince]

I have now moved the OGN-R from the front room to the garage and placed the aerials on the garage roof as pictured.


It is now using an LTE router with a free Three PAYGo SIM which gets 200MB of data free each month. Will run it like this for a few weeks so I can see how much data it uses.

[peter.seddon]

My station (Morecambe) has used 200Mb up and down since midnight Friday 28th Sep.

[Admin]

I was discussing this earlier
I think we could probably come up with a low bandwidth scheme to make this better suited to this type of scenario

Thx
Lee

[peter.seddon]

Looks like UKBRW is up and running now at Barrow in Furness, so that's another one for the list.

[Cottie]

Hi all,

I have recently setup a new site in Congleton, to cover the gap over Cheshire.

At the moment I am just using the original Antenna provided for the PAW mounted internal to the attic. When I have worked out the best way, I will update with better antennas.

[Keithvinning]

Great Job let me know when you want a better antenna.

So everyone has been busy and we now have 98 OGN-R locations that have been fitted. This, as Arthur Nap Shappy on the Cabin Pressure Radio show would say is BRILLIANT. . An absolutely great example of co-operation between the Gliding and power communities.

I need to check those that are currently down and we will also at some time get the SW up to a standard so that upgrades are automatic.

However with 2 months to go I am confident that we will have 100 sites up and running by the end of the year. An unbelievable achievement.

I will make a list of all the sites and update the MAP when I have chance. If however you have time to put yours on the map then this will help.

The target is now 200 by 2020.

We will continue to provide the bridges and Pi's so if you are able to install an OGN-R over the winter at your site then please help us to increase the coverage in preparation for Mode-S/3D after the trial.

Also for those of you that are of an engineering bent why not consider installing a 360 RADAR node at your home. As well as being a great little project it will help contribute to the MLAT data for Mode-S/3D.  https://signup.360radar.co.uk

Cant mention you all by name but thanks for all your hard work. You are really making history.

Keith

[Vince]

My unit has been now running a month on the garage and so far is using less than 200mb of data via the 4G router so will make an effort to move it to the airfield soon. Attached is a screen shot of the data used with 2 days left to run last month.

When I do move this over to the airfield I will look at replacing the one here at home so will need some aerials and bits Keith. That will take you to 99

[Keithvinning]

Hi Vince

Thats great

What is the name of the airfield and what will be the name of the House

Drop me a PM of what you want and I'll get it mustered

Cheers

Keith

[Keithvinning]

Ahah

I guess one of them is Lydeway?

Keith

[Vince]

Yes Lydeway and CalneW