New Stations Added

[Admin]

Impressive, PWBooker picked up a PilotAware, flying across the Thames

[PaulRuskin]

And another new station - UKRUT - Rutland, near Peterborough.

Paul

[Seanhump]

That's handy - I should pick that up from home base!!

[Ian Melville]

Well Enstone is finally up an running. I cannot access the system through the network as https://ognpaw.local:8080 is not accessible. As the router is locked down by ISP, I cannot find the IP either. Any suggestions?

I am able to see the ground station on SD And see gliders being winched at Rizzy and Bicester once they are a few hundred feet up. So all looks good.

Note: Site is not 24/7/365 as it will only run when the genny is running. Approx 08:30 to 18:00

[PaulRuskin]

Any suggestions?

Yes, install remot3 on it, which will reverse tunnel through the router.

Also, if you can't see ognpaw.local, find out its IP address (the router might tell you), and access it via <IP address>:8080

Paul

[Ian Melville]

Thanks Paul, I swot up on remote3 for when I am back at Enstone tomorrow. Newbie to Linux🤔

I knew of the IP trick, but the router is locked down by the ISP. It's a small wireless broadband provider, and I contacted them, but they said no chance of the login details 🙁

Prob will take a screen and Keyboad with me anyway.

Cheers

[SteveT]

PWBroadmd is now online with aerials properly installed outside.
Based at Broadmeadow Farm, Hereford, only a few miles from Chris at Kingstone, but all helps with the coverage :-)

There will be occasional outages as our internet is only 4G mobile and we sometimes run  out of data, but should be up most of the time.

Steve

[PaulRuskin]

UKMAC is now online, in West Wales.

Paul

[PaulRuskin]

And another - at Kings Lynn

Paul

[Winged_Jaguar]

Hi Keith and team,

RADLEY/PWRADLEY now has been upgraded to it's full complement of external aerials and the heat map around Abingdon is expanding nicely. In a quick ground-based test with my car-based PAW, the base-station seems to be transmitting properly. The PAW was about 1Km away from the base-station (in a stationary car) with the standard PAW dipole aerial stuck to a side window. A surprising number of glider positions were visible in SkyDemon.

The RTLSDR-OGN has logged 154 different aircraft so far today; mostly gliders (FLARM 124 and ICAO 30) and probably including Benson's training fleet - clearly a good day for a test with some big gliding event going on overhead.

If anyone flying in or through the Abingdon area can confirm that the base-station is providing a service to a reasonable range that would be most encouraging (supplementing the other nearby stations of Barton and Oxford). I'm not expecting miracles as the station is only 67m amsl (with the aerials above the roof-line). The best glider detection range is just over 40Kms so far.

The North-South corridor between the Brize and Benson MATZ seems to be very popular for both gliders and fixed wings which is often criss-crossed East-West around Abingdon and South so hopefully together we are helping make this area safer.

The RTLSDR-OGN did log one anomalous contact RND3923E7 at a range of 1289.4km and altitude of 15082m at location 40.87489 +46.04073 (Dallar in Azerbaijan!!). I think this is somewhat unlikely or that Chinese colinear aerial (which is working well) really is something else :-) - someone testing perhaps?

It is good to see the base station picking up the contacts as they pass though on the http://glidertracker.org website.

Cheers
Chris

[Keithvinning]

Hi Chris

Great to hear that you now have the antennas external. A great help thanks. I just looked at
http://ognrange.onglide.com/?#PWRADLEY,max,lastweek,51.733862_-1.100986,9,#00990000:#009900ff,circles;
and PWRadley over the last 7 days has achieved 57km to the north and 44Km to the South.
The bias (there always is one) is North South in your case.
However this will be a great location and will complement Enstone, Booker, Chiltern Park, Turweston, and Thame
 
Great work. Thanks

To all of the other OGN supporters please keep up the good work. Last week I socialised the work we are doing with the Electronic Conspicuity Team at EASA in Cologne and they were amazed at the progress.

Lets get more and show them what we really can do

Regards

Keith

 

[Keithvinning]

Thanks to Grant Shapps, Yes Grant Shapps MP and head of the APPG (All Party Parliamentary Group on Aviation) for installing an OGN station at BKpark  near Harlow. This is  great location in that it is in the northern corridor between Luton Stanstead and Heathrow so there is a lot of traffic about. On the very first day PWbkpark was picking up gliders as far away as 60Km at Bicester and PilotAware at 40km.  The site will complement Booker, Chiltern Park and Denon when that is installed. Perhaps we should encourage Elstree and Halton to fill in the gaps. Any offers?

Today we tracked a specific Pilotaware equipped aircraft from North London all the way to Coventry as it was picked up by various stations including BKPark, Orwell, Alconbury, Everton, BIG, HusBos, Stoke, Gransden Lodge and Coventry as it travelled en route.

The OGN-R is really coming of age. Thanks to all your continuing support.

Grant really is a champion for GA aviation in the UK and spearheading the mission to make the UK the best place in the world for GA. Sometimes an uphill battle and needs all our support. Well done Grant Top Man

[exfirepro]

OGN Station at Morecambe upgraded to OGN-R and now online as reported over in 'Technical Support' here...

http://forum.pilotaware.com/index.php/topic,1401.msg15974.html#msg15974

Thanks due to glider pilot Peter Seddon, who also hopes to update the site at UKBRW for Walney Island and the Lakes Gliding Club this weekend.

Well done Peter and welcome to OGN-R

Best Regards

Peter R

[CBondRAF]

Any chance of Kemble being added to the list please?

[Ian Melville]

Hi CBondRAF,

Have you set up or know of an OGN-R station at Kemble? or is this a request to install one?