Modesmixer2 with SBS-3 SDRs

[acarslogger]

Hi,

For the first time I decided to try modesmixer2 (on window 10). To begin with I decided to keep things simple; I configured modesmixer to get data from my SBS-3 on port 192.168.0.170 and output using sbs10001 format on port 10001.
So the bat file looked like ..

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modesmixer2.exe --inConnect 192.168.0.170:10001 --outServer sbs10001:10001

Started modesmixer2 OK. On the same PC I started Basestation using Hardware Setting > Network > Address 127.0.0.1 and port 10001. Basestation connected to modesmixer2 and started OK and displayed aircraft.

When I went to use the SBS-3 SDR's, the Basestation SDR control panel came up with the single SBS1-er radio interface and not the 6 channel SBS-3 control panel.

Should modesmixer2 pass all data, including the SBS-3 SDR and IQ data, from source to destination, or is it limited to ADS-B data ?

Thanks
Stuart

[sergsero]

Hi Stuart,

At the moment - no, modesmixer2 can work only with Mode S data, received on 1090 MHz. This follows even from its title: "mode_s + mixer".

SDR mode in the SBS-3 receiver is designed for receiving AM or FM radio stations (voice or data) within the range 27 MHz to 980 MHz from two build-in tuners. SDR data is also transmitted in the same stream, but their use requires a simultaneous transmission in receiver additional control commands.

Regards,
sergsero

[acarslogger]

I had (incorrectly) assumed that any data being read from the SBS-3 port 10001 would be passed to the output SBS10001 format.
Thanks for the clarification.

Regards
Stuart