Information for a newbie

[tnowak]

Greetings,

I am slowly coming on board with this project, but am starting first with getting my existing Trig TT21 connected for ADS-B out.
Will let you know how I get on.
A couple of points:
1. Can someone please post a "sticky" reference list of acronyms used in this forum? I can't be the only newbie trying to wade through loads of forum posts trying to figure out what "ARF" is short for!
2. Forum posts titles: Can they be made more relevant for quick searching of content? I almost didn't bother looking at the "6th November 2015 - Flyer Live Show" post as I didn't think it would contain current, useful info. But it did!

Regards

TonyN

[neilmurg]

Start by making a list 😃😃😃
ARF - programmable receiver transmitter on a chip. Used by PilotAware to detect other PilotAware units at 869.4 MHz. Should NOT be included yet (true at 17/11/2015)

[tnowak]

Shouldn't the acronym be PRTOAC?

I am happy to go through all the posts and come up with a list of acronyms that need decoding!

TonyN

[GarethHorne]

:
1. Can someone please post a "sticky" reference list of acronyms used in this forum? I can't be the only newbie trying to wade through loads of forum posts trying to figure out what "ARF" is short for!

Glad someone else asked that, I've been wondering what 'ARF' stands for for weeks!

[Paul_Sengupta]

This is an ARF. It's called that because that's what the manufacturer calls it!

https://www.wirelessthings.net/arf-high-power-radio-transceiver

[GarethHorne]

This is an ARF. It's called that because that's what the manufacturer calls it!

https://www.wirelessthings.net/arf-high-power-radio-transceiver

Yup, that looks like mine, guess they don't know what it stands for either!

[neilmurg]

RF - Radio Frequency?
A - Advanced? (IBM always have an A=Advanced, never an O=Ordinary or R=Retarded, dunno why not...)

[Moffrestorer]

The manufacturer has an SRF and an XRF module as well. I believe the ARF is essentially the same unit as the SRF but with the addition of an amplifier built into both transmit and receiver paths of the unit.
 
I like to think that ARF might stand for Amplified Radio Frequency (module). Trouble is, that begs the question, what does S and X mean for in the other products? At least the latter units are not used in PAW or PA (Pilotaware).

[tnowak]

Glad it's not just me that didn't understand what ARF meant!
What about these?:
RTL-SDR
ttyACMx
ttyUSBx

TonyN

[Ian Melville]

RTL is a radio chip manufacture
SDR Is software defined radio
The last two are connections to modules like the Barometer, GPS and ARF
ttyACM is a serial port using Abstract Control Model
ttyUSB is a serial port using Univeral Serial Bus