Radarspotting
Forum Info => Welcome to Radarspotting.com => Topic started by: skaw on October 17, 2015, 06:44:35 PM
Hi,
since you guys helped me alot here with my Rapsberry Pi/Mode-S Beast Setup, i think its kinda fair to introduce myself.
My name is Dennis, i am 31 years old and live in Neumünster, norhtern Germany, about 60km north of Hamburg. We have a local airfield here, ICAO EDHN, and an aviation club, the FSCN (http://www.fscn.de/).
I have been into aviation for a few years now but after experiencing the NATO Exercive Jawtex last year and the immediate following Tigermeet 2014 at Jagel Airbase, about 60km to the north, I also got into planespotting. Most of the time I am spotting at Jagel or Hohn Airbases, but sometimes I visit Hamburg airport to catch some civil airliners.
The next thing was plotting..or..the ability to see, whats flying when around me, especially since i am living at the northern tip of a air-refueling-anchor. I also wanted to know, which planes are going on a exercise mission if I am not at Jagel Airbase. And even if i am there, my receiver cathes the signals of the planes in order of departure due to the near location of my receiver to the airbase and therefore i slowly fill up my own "have seen" database with the plane type, serial, hex-code, time seen, etc...
As written in my problem thread earlier I started with a Mode-S Beast and an external A3 ADS-B 1090Mhz Antenna which is mounted on the roof operated by a Netbook which was then running 24/7 Planeplotter and the MilMode-S Logger to feed to live-military-mode-s.eu. Eventually this setup was kinda annoying because of the netbooks energy consumption. So i switched to a Raspberry Pi recently, which is...after a few problems at first...feeding live-military-mode-s.eu and Planeplotter now 24/7. For Planeplotter, it is also Auto MLAT capable, which makes it a fully functional groundstation again. And if i need to make a MLAT request, i start Planeplotter on my PC and connect to the beast.
Yea..thats it for now :)
Welcome Dennis
Nice writeup. There are a few Military buffs on here.
A warm welcome to the forum Dennis and thanks for the intro..
Welcome Dennis. Very informative introduction.