Radarspotting

Hello all,

My name is Rik, I'm a software engineer with a UK based company that produces marine surveillance systems. I've registered for your forums in the hope that someone will be able to share some knowledge with me, to help with a project I'm working on.

If this posting on behalf of a commercial company is out of line for your forum, I apologise, and let the moderators deal with me as they see fit!

My situation is that we've been contracted to expand our marine surveillance system to accept inputs from ATC radars. One of the data sources I need to support is using the ASTERIX protocol (it's the UK NATS data). To test the software we develop I need a source of ASTERIX data but it's remarkably hard to obtain.

So my thinking is, I could get some sort of simulator, or I could obtain a mode S receiver with suitable software that outputs ASTERIX data. Obviously it might not be exactly the same UAP as the NATS data but it's better than nothing.

So can anyone please suggest a solution for me? Do you know of any simulator software that can output aircraft positions in ASTERIX format? Or (possibly preferable) can anyone recommend a mode S receiver which will output ASTERIX - either over a serial port or ethernet, I can work with pretty much anything.

I'm slowly reading my way through the various sections of the forums in the hope of finding a suitable solution but if anyone can point me in the right direction it would be much appreciated.

Many thanks.

Rik
Software Engineer, Denbridge Marine Ltd

Welcome.

Try contacting Kinetic Aviation Products:

http://www.kinetic-avionics.com/#

Pity Tarbat is no longer active. Boss

Thanks for the info, I'll get in touch with them.