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You can see 3 pictures of some military aircraft that was on my Aircraft List.Īgain, not enough Mlat sharers for finding the location.īeamfinder doesn't show beams when I click on the aircraft in the list. I am also thinking about the Mode-S Beast or SBS-3. Maybe I can buy a better antenna and see if I get better results. What are your suggestions for me? Is my 'mission' not realistic? Although, I will need internet outside of my house so maybe a 3G network will work with my laptop and Teamviewer. I know that they all have a transponder here, but I don't receive all of them. For the other aircraft, there was not enough data(PP sharers) and were only a little time visible on the Aircraft List. I was only able to find to location of one F16 using Mlat. I saw some Belgian Air Force F16's, C130's and SF260's on PlanePlotter this morning.
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But they are only Sector Master Users (white) and other uploading sharers (yellow) so I don't know if they are suitable for Mlat. It seems that there are around six PP users in Belgium, me included. Hopefully this and the other replies will help you sort things out. If you want to see your screen remotely, Teamviewer is good for that. Identified in your radar.txt file with 'ZS' So if you log the radar timings then you may be able to use that as well. This method is similar to the Beamfinder method except that it uses the timing of the Mode-S radar pulses instead of the IID attached to some Mode-S radar messages. ZZ 0.006599 37.195 -8.600 12.123 3 (from the PP help file as I can't receive Mode A and C pulses)
PLANEPLOTTER BEAMFINDER PLUS
However, you will not be able to use Beamfinder Plus with a R820T dongle. Identified in your radar.txt file with 'ZZ'. Currently, only the "Beast" and the SBS3 receivers provide Mode-A/C data in a format that this feature can use. This method is similar to the Beamfinder method except that it uses Mode-A/C radar pulses instead of Mode-S radar pulses. Identified in your radar.txt file with 'SI' or 'II' If PlanePlotter knows the identifier and the location of a specific radar site, together with its rotation rate, then any time that it receives a identified "ping" from an aircraft with a known position, it can determine the instantaneous azimuth of the radar beam from that radar site, at that precise instant. The radar heads rotate at speeds between 5 and 15 revolutions per minute (between 4 and 12 seconds per complete rotation). If PlanePlotter is used with a Mode-S receiver giving the appropriate raw data (currently SBS1, PGR, AVR/Beast, miniADSB, microADSB, SSRx), the identifier of the interrogating radar site can be determined from the air-to-ground Mode-S reply that PlanePotter picks up. I'll just add a few bits from the PP help file, together with a couple of examples from my radar.txt file: