Hi All
I'm trying yet again to refine my Beamfinder fixes, as MLAT probably won't appear in my neck of the woods on PlanePlotter in my lifetime :) I would really appreciate any info you have on the following radars, particularly their location and rpm.
Southern France
II 2 Tours
SI 4 Marseille
II 8 Montpellier
II 11 Pierre sur Haute
SI 12 Toulouse Blagnac
SI 21 Mont Ventoux
SI 36 Chaumont
SI 44 Avaranches/Grasse
SI 52 HMA T3D (French MoD radar)
Eastern Spain
II 9 Malaga 1
II 11 Valdespina
II 13 Solorzano
I think I might be able to use a Morrocan radar as well
II 13 Oujda
Many thanks for your help
Stephen
Remembered and eventually found this link that might help
http://www.auroraeurotech.com/pp/RadarSites.php
Edit:
And check this link from another Beamfinder post today:
http://www.icao.int/EURNAT/EUR%20and%20NAT%20Documents/EUR%20Documents/024%20-%20EUR%20Radar%20Mode%20S%20Interrogator%20Codes%20%28IC%29/Attachment%20to%20EUR%20DOC%20024%20-%20Edition%201.18.pdf
No locations but it does have identifiers.
Thanks Ian
I'd completely forgotten about the aurora eurotech site.
Regards
Stephen
And you might want to consider contributing to Flightaware if you have a spare Raspberry Pi. They feed back your contributed data with added MLAT positions which you can plot on your display software of choice. Once you set up a Pi, you will quickly be able to see whether MLAT is working in your area.
No cost to join in and you can abandon it if no use to you.
How difficult is it? You can either download the Piaware set up and install on an SD card or use Raspian and install the two bits of software via a couple of scripts.
I've been playing around with a couple of Orange Pi (half the price of a Raspi) and it even works with them.
Ian
I did contribute to Flightaware last year but seldom saw positionless aircraft plotting. I might try again as a year is a long time in terms of this hobby, and there may well be more contributors now.
Flightradar24 displays quite a few positionless aircraft, but rarely military, which is why I'm hoping that Crimbo brings new receivers to the good people of this part of the world, acompanied by Planeplotter subscriptions! :)
Quote from: Bethsalem on December 25, 2015, 05:41:05 PM
acompanied by Planeplotter subscriptions! :)
FlightAware is giving away PP subs but not dictionaries.
Blame the Crimbo sherry trifle for the spelingz musteaks ;)
Quote from: IanH on December 24, 2015, 06:30:03 PM
And you might want to consider contributing to Flightaware if you have a spare Raspberry Pi. They feed back your contributed data with added MLAT positions which you can plot on your display software of choice. Once you set up a Pi, you will quickly be able to see whether MLAT is working in your area.
No cost to join in and you can abandon it if no use to you.
How difficult is it? You can either download the Piaware set up and install on an SD card or use Raspian and install the two bits of software via a couple of scripts.
I've been playing around with a couple of Orange Pi (half the price of a Raspi) and it even works with them.
Ian
I'm now contributing data to Flightaware via PiAware on a Rasp Pi 2.
Finally, automatic mlat fixes! :)
Oh joy!
It's still not great mlat coverage as there aren't many PiAware of FlightFeeder receivers in this part of Spain, but hopefully this situation will improve.
Quote from: Bethsalem on January 26, 2016, 01:48:07 PM
I'm now contributing data to Flightaware via PiAware on a Rasp Pi 2.
Are you seeing many on your Dump1090 map?
I'm sure your local PiAware feeder population will grow.
I would guesstimate that roughly 7% of aircraft I'm seeing plotted on the Dump1090 map are mlat derived.
The lowest altitude, so far, is 22000ft. I would ideally like to see that reduced to no more than a few thousand so I can see the position of the various helos and GA traffic around my area.
Just an update. Over Barcelona I'm now seeing mlat fixes down to 7000ft. Great :D
My screenshot function isn't currently working for some reason known only unto Microsoft, so I'll have to explain verbally.
A snapshot of this morning's PlanePlotter has 25 aircraft on screen, 7 of those don't show positions. Using PiAware/Flightaware, 4 of those 7 are plotting.
Not perfect, but not bad either considering how scarce on the ground Flightaware receivers are.
Quote from: Bethsalem on January 28, 2016, 08:12:08 AM
A snapshot of this morning's PlanePlotter has 25 aircraft on screen, 7 of those don't show positions. Using PiAware/Flightaware, 4 of those 7 are plotting.
I must admit that I was pleasantly surprised by the "quality" of the PiAware MLAT plots which can only get better as more people opt for a cheap setup with free software. And no licence fee or annual subscriptions. Plus the bonus of a free FlightAware Enterprise account.
Coverage will improve even further when the FlightFeeders are enabled for MLAT.
Have you tried using the FR24 website for MLAT plots or are too many "blocked"?
It's been a long time since I fed into FlightRadar24. I gave up before because issues with the .ini file and disconnections. Maybe I'll give it another go. The FlightRadar24 app is useful, but for some reason their website on my laptop used to take an aeon to load, so I gave up using it. Again, maybe I'll give it another go.
Hi Bethy, a bit late but hope it worths. All Mode-S radar sites in Spain have 12 rpm rotation rate:
; ALCOLEA
II 3 41.044827 -2.455541 12
; PARACUELLOS I
II 5 40.491875 -3.521754 12
; MONFLORITE
II 7 42.085631 -0.325395 12
; VALLADOLID
II 10 41.699623 -4.853570 12
; VALDESPINA
II 11 42.148003 -4.425527 12
; SOLORZANO
II 13 43.358620 -3.562349 12
; Madrid INDRA
II 14 40.455210 -3.473111 12
;SI-12 TOULOUSE BLAGNAC
SI 12 43.63720 1.34167 12
Breitling
Many thanks for these updated sites. As MLAT coverage is now non-existent in my part of Spain with either FlightAware or PlanePlotter, I have to rely on Beamfinder fixes, so your information is of great help.
Stephen