New Stations Added

[AlanG]

PWEdinbuW is now up & running. Only in my loft just now And battery powered for testing purposes as currently no permanent power up there.

Alan

[exfirepro]

PWEdinbuW is now up & running. Only in my loft just now And battery powered for testing purposes as currently no permanent power up there.

Alan

Congrats Alan - OGN-R No.2 in Scotland - How in the UK, Keith??

Must get PWBalerno back up and running - hopefully very soon and then we can concentrate on the Airfields where we have already got approval to install !!

Might be able to do a 'fly-by' today with FLARM Alan if you can leave it running.

Best Regards

Peter

p.s. I have added you to the 'PilotAwares' Map.

[Cottie]

Hi Keith,

I upgraded my aerials earlier in the week.

I am suffering from them being in the loft at the moment as coverage out to the west is a bit weak (about 8-10km range) but I can see both FLARM and PAW in the Barton circuit which is 38-42km out to the north west.

I will see about getting them moved outside onto the roof, hopefully then I should be able to provide coverage from the south end of the Manchester Low Level corridor.

[Keithvinning]

Hi Iain

Thats great

Being in the loft is always problematical because of the attenuation usually from the tiles.
Also very few stations have a range that is the same through 360 degrees. PWCrowlan is one that is an exception to this.
When you get them outside they will be better
However if you are getting 34Kms in the loft that looks good for the future

Cheers

Keith
 

[Positiv]

Hello
PWUEHRDE is online
thx
Keith

[Vince]

Used 140MBytes this month so looks like the free 200MB per month SIM will do.
 

[Vince]

CalneW has been moved to Lydeway which is now up and running.

http://ognrange.onglide.com/#Lydeway,max,today,51.27454_-1.88070,11,#80000040:#008000ff,circles;

I will now need to build a setup for CalneW but have most things except pi & radio board. I may temporarily use my Rosetta so I can test the Mode-S/3D OGN-R software.

[Keithvinning]

Hi Vince

I will send you a PI and RADIO board FOC for CalneW.

Cheers

Keith

[Vince]

CalneW now back up with the complimentary Pi & radio board, thanks Keith. Will see about getting an external 1090 antenna erected this weekend.

[Ben Smith]

It’s good to see someone has set up a station at blackbushe, (EGLK / PWEGLK)
I often pick up PW equipped aircraft going in and out of the bushe, however their PW range looks quite poor at the moment, hopefully it can be improved.

[rcalvert]

PWMiltnKy active now. Thanks to Keith's help with cabling.

Just off M1 Jct14.

[SGS66]

Ben Smith,
Excuse me from being slow to catch on, are you saying that in your glider (with Flarm presumably) you also pick up PW traffic so long as you are in range of a PW-OGN station?
Phil PA28 man

[Vince]

No he will have a pilotaware unit in his a/c. OGN-R only relays glider traffic to pilotaware units and does not transmit on flarm or OGN.

[SGS66]

Vince,
I see, so Ben's reference to 'range' is how far away he can see (with PW) the ground station at Blackbush?
brgds Phil

[Keithvinning]

Hi all

The Blackbush installation is a new development called trident which has been donated by Pilotaware to air mobility
Since the day it went in it has been very windy. I will keep an eye on its range. However a similar trident installation at Bembridge is giving good range.

Keith