On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 12:23 PM, Max Harper <[email protected]> wrote:
> APRS isn't the place for aircraft IMHO. If someone is interested in > monitoring aircraft they need to check out FlightAware. They have updated > the dump1090 software and call it PiAware which sends the data to their > network. ADS-B can generate a lot of traffic since they send updates at > like once per second. I run Dump1090 and would never dream of sending that > much data to the APRS-IS and RF couldn't even come close to handling that > much data. If I'm not mistaken, PiAware puts the correct aircraft icon as > the aircraft type is sent in the data. > Read my postings on that subject. It's a LOCAL DISPLAY... No ham radio or internet involved. For my purposes I often don't have internet access (SAR Missions), so FlightAware24 is not the right solution for me. An SDR dongle and Xastir as the local display is. Plus I can see APRS traffic on the same map at the same time. Win-win. -- Curt, WE7U http://wetnet.net/~we7u http://www.sarguydigital.com _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir
