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[lorrebreaker]

Just got myself a MicroADSB (well strictly speaking a second one as the first was held by customs in bulgaria apparently) and have to say i'm impressed with it (not that i have much frame of reference being very new to all this)
Antenna that ships with it is on my window sill & aircraft seem to drop off at about 80nm according to adsbscope.
Going to look into ways of improving my set up with it.

[Anmer]

Thanks for the feedback.

Antenna height is king.

[yarmouthshipping]

I second Anmer on that height is king. I too have microadsb and find it excellent

[lorrebreaker]

Thanks for the tips guys, best to use the one that ships with the usb stick or a different one??

[Anmer]

You can pay as much if not more than the microADSB for an external antenna.

I'd experiment with the supplied one and then decide if you want more range.

There's a review I did in the Guides section of the Kinetic kit.  But there are others to consider.

[lorrebreaker]

Thanks for the info, i will have a good read of the review.

[lorrebreaker]

Still finding my feet after two months & have now bought pp and am now a ground station & sharing on fr24 though i never see my radar show up on the site. (guessed it wouldn't with an internal antenna as the signal wouldn't be great).

Beginning to consider an sbs-3 with some kind of external antenna but think i need to do a lot more reading before i take that step.
Thanks to all the helpful posts on here, it's been really helpful to someone who was & still is totally new to all this.

[Anmer]

I got pretty good results using my external antenna with the microADSB receiver, details in my Review.

Maybe try an external; antenna before investing in the SBS-3?  Or wait for the Puck if you're not too bothered about the SDRs?

If you're sharing to FR24 via PP, you won't see your data as it's all grouped under Net1.

[lorrebreaker]

Thanks for the reply Anmer, good idea on waiting for the Puck, might just do that.
Im sharing to fr24 via pp but also using the fr24 sharing app.

[Anmer]

I'd only share using the FR24 software as this gets you access to Premium.

[lorrebreaker]

Yep that's what im doing. Sharing through pp as a ground station & sharing to fr24 through the fr24 app, so i gain access to premium (including the android app).

[neil-c]

Thanks for the review Anmer, pretty much confirms my opinion of the Micro-adsb. It is very hard to fault for the money.