What do you really use your Mode-S receiver for?

[Sun Worshipper]

Roadrunner, we are not to far away from each other!!

Having said all above, if I was starting from scratch today I would probably opt for one of the App devices

I think this was where I was coming from with the original question. 

[Anmer]

Roadrunner, we are not to far away from each other!!

Having said all above, if I was starting from scratch today I would probably opt for one of the App devices

I think this was where I was coming from with the original question.

But if everyone started off like that there would be no aircraft on the apps.

[Sun Worshipper]

Eeee, eck, it's a vicious circle.

[Roadrunner]

I agree Anmer,


It was just that I have spent over £2,000 on devices and associated add ons and my wife keeps reminding me of things we could have spent that money on...........

[mhm]

I agree Anmer,


It was just that I have spent over £2,000 on devices and associated add ons and my wife keeps reminding me of things we could have spent that money on...........

Mike just point out that you have not spent as much on your hobby as she has on clothes shoes and war paint. 

[birdie]

I came from an era of plane spotters where something like a Radarbox would have been viewed upon as satanic black magic.

However, I realise time and technology moves on and I was wondering, in this day and age, what people use a Radarbox for?

Is it purely to tie up registrations of aircraft you see in your area, is it used to locate aircraft whose registrations you need to find out if they are anywhere near you or something else.

This is purely to satisfy my curiosity and there is no right or wrong answer to the question.

Initially, I used my RadarBox to see the local traffic in WSSS and feed Flightradar24.

When Flightradar24 loan me a receiver, I used the RadarBox as a standby unit.

When RB24 came online - I discovered RB24.com was stealing my Data - and I got banned when I complained.

After that, I put my RadarBox inside my Cat's Litter box for them to pooh and pi$$ on but my cats got high class ego - until today they refused to pooh and pi$$ on it.

[Barnsley Spotter]

SBS-3 and dongles are used to tie up aircraft where ever I am.

The Airnav is boxed and awaiting Walter and Stantons to arrange collection for a full refund, although I have been waiting 21 days to date.

I come from the 90's spotting era, started using an old crystal radio to receive airband signals listening into Gatwick Approach and Radar as I went to sleep as a child, and the scope and radio when I visited the airfields.

Fond memories.

[Anmer]

The Airnav is boxed and awaiting Walter and Stantons to arrange collection for a full refund, although I have been waiting 21 days to date.

Send it back, recorded delivery and get your full refund plus shipping costs.  I'd be very worried if I was waiting for collection for 21 days or more.

[apgphoto]

I have always had an aviation interest, first airshow was in 1977 at White Waltham, where the BA Vc10 cut the grass, but have never collected numbers.

First saw these mystery boxes at a Farnborough Airshow, Kinetic must have had a booth there? It was an original SBS-1 with a very low tech display, but your own radar for what ever the price was then was very appealing.

Fast forward to the early Planeplotter days and I was an early adopter (Remember the pre MLAT days!) and then bought a used SBS-1 so I could contribute, then a -1ER and then a -3. I now host a FR24 unit also.

When I bought my first SBS unit I lived in deepest darkest Wales in the low fly area and it gave a great heads up of anything likely to fly through the valley. Then moving on to the SBS-3 it was great being able to use it and PP to track the UAS trials at Aberporth being able to see the unseen.

I now live in Gloucestershire and aircraft are not so "interesting" although tracking the unseen U-2's is always a challenge.

Guess my main interest now is getting the data correct, whether thats a new hex code or trying to sort a miscoded a/c and contributing to the PP and FR24 networks so that others worldwide can enjoy the hobby.

[Barnsley Spotter]

The Airnav is boxed and awaiting Walter and Stantons to arrange collection for a full refund, although I have been waiting 21 days to date.

Send it back, recorded delivery and get your full refund plus shipping costs.  I'd be very worried if I was waiting for collection for 21 days or more.

I am worried, they was supposed to of had someone called Kris from their tech support go through settings with me.  That was the beginning of January.  Customer service is extremely poor in my opinion.

Monday will see it being sent back regardless for a full refund.

Ian