Hope somebody can help

[G6EZG]

Thanks keef

[IanH]

I concur with Keef - the technical support for Kinetic products from the user base seems better than for Airnav. And Chris Taylor (tmrf.co.uk) comes on here at times - he is based at Elstree in the UK so he can't hide like Airnav 

If I get time, now that I've got Win8.1 installed, I can check that my SBS-3 works on it.  Just need to install BaseStation and divert the SBS-3 output to that PC.

Edit: no problems at all with BaseStation 1.84. Note that was ethernet connection not USB.

[G6EZG]

Thanks Ian
Looks like a sbs-3 is on the cards
Have also been looking at the puck but I like the idea of the built in sdr recievers for acars and atc

[birdie]

Ok Ian

Will give them a ring and get them to sort it out or they can come and collect it and send me a new one
Mine was the 99 pound offer  so if it works I will be quite pleased.
Will it work with any other software

Ivan

Poor you - why did you exchange your hard earned money for a piece of crap ?

I have been "Sabre rattling" about this piece of crap until people got tired of hearing me.

Do not complain in AirNav Forum - you will be banned immediately. 

[maximus_mike]

Just as an aside, I have a SBS-3, but since paying $8-75 for a R820t2 dongle and the freeware Modesdeco2 decoder (which can use your Basestation database, I find I get just as good results on Mode-S reception.

I run the above with ADSBscope, PBLink2 and ADSB-Display simultaneously to cover all of my needs.

Mike

[Anmer]

Just as an aside, I have a SBS-3, but since paying $8-75 for a R820t2 dongle and the freeware Modesdeco2 decoder (which can use your Basestation database, I find I get just as good results on Mode-S reception.

Depending on your antenna and its location, I found a DVB-T "dongle" could provide similar coverage to the SBS-3 but over time it delivered less aircraft messages.

I think the SBS receivers offer a higher quality, message decoding package but at a price.

One gets what one pays for.

[Breitling]

I agree with Anmer. Using a good quality antenna (and downlead) a DVB-T dongle can obtain impressive results. But it cannot compare with a FPGA based hardware. With a dongle is the computer which carries the whole decoding workload, on the other side it is the SBS box by itself.