[Xastir] ADS-B (planes)

[Bill]

And it's fascinating to see all the traffic being picked up from a little three inch antenna on top of the salt shaker using a twenty dollar radio dongle and open source software.



> On Mar 11, 2016, at 2:44 PM, Curt Mills <curt.we7u at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 'cuz we have two helo's in our county for SAR, and I'm in SAR...  And 'cuz
> I can.
> 
>> On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 2:41 PM, Dexter N Muir <dexy at xtra.co.nz> wrote:
>> 
>> Y'know I'm left wondering: Why 'planes? I mean, xastir - and APRS - is
>> great for activity reporting and hazard alerts - fire, flood, quake etc -
>> even its under-utilised messaging, particularly in SAR activity - but why
>> aircraft? I'd think anyone wanting to watch them would have hardware to get
>> info off-air or know of specific ADS-B feeds, and have software already
>> available to display same. Anything capable of running xastir should be
>> able to do ADS-B stuff alongside or instead at need - why clutter or
>> feature-creep Amateur/SAR with that? Just because you can?
>> 
>> 73
>> Dex, ZL2DEX
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