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Inacio posted:Thanks! They’re getting a feed from the Atlantic oceanic ATC facility(ies,) but not from the trans-pac facilities.
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JingleBells posted:Will this is bizarre: http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/city-airport-eccles-plane-crash-13919768 Was the arrested man on board? Could be sabotage, laser pen or flying without a license.
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"Well, sir, the good news is our main rotor balances have gotten very good." "How good?" "That brings me to the bad news..."
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Inacio posted:Thanks! As noted they get some radar data as well. They describe their full set of data sources here: https://www.flightradar24.com/how-it-works If you have a spare PC or Raspberry Pi type device with one of the cheap RTL-SDR receivers you can actually contribute data yourself and get free access to the top tier subscription level.
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FrozenVent posted:So the Elon Musk of his day then? Zeppelin was even crowd-funded to get the LZ2 (literally) off the ground - the King of Wuttemburg liked the idea of an Air Ship so much that he organised a lottery in his kingdom which raised 124,000 DM for Zeppelin's work. edit: 'Zeppeling' is not a word, although now I think that the verb 'to Zeppel' should be used for all rigid airship travel.
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wolrah posted:As noted they get some radar data as well. They describe their full set of data sources here: https://www.flightradar24.com/how-it-works I have all of these things but just haven't put it together yet, minus a good antenna. You can also get raw weather satellite data, the software radio things are pretty cool.
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BalloonFish posted:edit: 'Zeppeling' is not a word, although now I think that the verb 'to Zeppel' should be used for all rigid airship travel.  This is correct
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Plinkey posted:I have all of these things but just haven't put it together yet, minus a good antenna. You don't even need a good antenna. I use my old RTL that was actually built as a TV stick intermittently with the lovely little rubber duck antenna it came with and it picks up plenty of traffic. Obviously my newer RTL that was built as a SDR and came with a proper antenna does better but it's not as much of a difference as you'd expect. I keep meaning to mount a Pi up in my attic so I can get a permanent receiver going, but 
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wolrah posted:As noted they get some radar data as well. They describe their full set of data sources here: https://www.flightradar24.com/how-it-works After mulling it over for about a year, I applied for one of the FlightRadar24 ADS-B receivers to be located at my house. I suppose that if I get denied I'll figure out how to use a RaspberryPI card with an old Mac desktop, but I'd really like the Business Plan subscription for free.
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By good antenna, I mean any antenna.
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ausgezeichnet posted:After mulling it over for about a year, I applied for one of the FlightRadar24 ADS-B receivers to be located at my house. I suppose that if I get denied I'll figure out how to use a RaspberryPI card with an old Mac desktop, but
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Does anyone know anything about scanners? Since I'm in Germany, where online scanning is unavailable, I've purchased a tiny handheld Albrecht radio scanner that comes with a small (10-15 cm?) antenna. I live right on the departure path of EDDL and I get clear Tower and Approach frequencies and Ground with the ATC side only (nothing airside), for some reason. There's a 48 cm antenna available for my handheld - if I get that, will I see any sensible improvement? Dare I hope I could hear Rhein Center? I'd also appreciate some info on how ATC antennas work - are the signals boosted? EDDL Tower transmits, well, from the tower at EDDL, but approach is called "Langen Radar", which would imply the actually Approach ATC is being beamed from 300 km away, fromthe city of Langen, where the ATC center for this part of Germany is located - no way for my handheld to be able to pick it up, yet it does. Does that mean the antenna at EDDL is boosting the approach signal? There's also a "Langen Center" frequency, but I'm getting nothing on that, so I'm completely lost on how that all might work.
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Mokotow posted:...and I get clear Tower and Approach frequencies and Ground with the ATC side only (nothing airside), for some reason. They’re almost certainly working two (or more) frequencies, which means all the airplanes are actually talking to them on the other ones. Some US center sectors might be using four or five frequencies, simultaneously. When my area is combined for the mid shift (all seven sectors combined on the home sector,) I’m responsible for (listening to, and in some cases transmitting on) eight VHF and nine UHF frequencies, plus VHF and UHF guard. Mokotow posted:I'd also appreciate some info on how ATC antennas work - are the signals boosted? EDDL Tower transmits, well, from the tower at EDDL, but approach is called "Langen Radar", which would imply the actually Approach ATC is being beamed from 300 km away, fromthe city of Langen, where the ATC center for this part of Germany is located - no way for my handheld to be able to pick it up, yet it does. Does that mean the antenna at EDDL is boosting the approach signal? There's also a "Langen Center" frequency, but I'm getting nothing on that, so I'm completely lost on how that all might work. ATC facilities (other than towers) work frequencies with remote transceiver sites. My airspace, which extends from roughly FLL to ORL, and from about 15nm inland of the east coast, to maybe 20nm inland from the west coast, has transceiver sites all over the place. MLB, PHK, AVO, RSW, FLL, and also a local site at the facility itself nearby MIA. (You can punch those codes into AirNav and you can get a feel for how far apart they are. My area is pretty dense, compared to some others in the system.) I can transmit and receive on all of these frequencies through a touchscreen interface. VHF radio going from a ground site to another ground site is only good for maybe 20 or 30 miles, so what you can hear has a transceiver nearby.
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This thing is doing just fine so far, it seems: Airlander 10 'breaks in two' and collapses at Cardington - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-42037832
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inkjet_lakes posted:This thing is doing just fine so far, it seems: Just slap some tape on there and air it back up, it'll be fine.
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ausgezeichnet posted:After mulling it over for about a year, I applied for one of the FlightRadar24 ADS-B receivers to be located at my house. I suppose that if I get denied I'll figure out how to use a RaspberryPI card with an old Mac desktop, but A RaspberryPi is standalone - no need for the desktop. If you are a cheap rear end, check out the bananapi/orangepi etc. I've got a BananaPi because of the SATA connector and it makes a nice cheap way to get into NAS devices before I build somethign more substantial.
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Humphreys posted:A RaspberryPi is standalone - no need for the desktop. If you are a cheap rear end, check out the bananapi/orangepi etc. I've got a BananaPi because of the SATA connector and it makes a nice cheap way to get into NAS devices before I build somethign more substantial. Warning about the Pi clones, most of them use lovely chips that have no mainline kernel support. What this means is that unless the community decides to take up the cause you're stuck with whatever (usually ancient) kernel the SoC vendor ported when they released the device and likely hasn't updated since.
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ausgezeichnet posted:After mulling it over for about a year, I applied for one of the FlightRadar24 ADS-B receivers to be located at my house. I suppose that if I get denied I'll figure out how to use a RaspberryPI card with an old Mac desktop, but I applied years ago right before the first piaware's became a thing. They will not send you a box unless you live in a very specific area that needs coverage and you happen to have a tower or something. Just buy a pi and build a piaware if you want to the better access.
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inkjet_lakes posted:This thing is doing just fine so far, it seems: That’s some good zeppeling Lou.
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inkjet_lakes posted:This thing is doing just fine so far, it seems: 
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 Amerika Bombers 1944: Ragnarocky Road Finished a new Amerika bomber post. I'm proud of this one because I think my heading titles are good. 
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How long have you been making these posts? I feel like I've been enjoying your stuff for the better part of a decade now.
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 New submersible C-130 variant looking p good Jordanians making an artificial reef
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That would be cool as poo poo to dive.
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blugu64 posted:How long have you been making these posts? I feel like I've been enjoying your stuff for the better part of a decade now. Since, I dunno, 2010-2011? 
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e.pilot posted:I can’t believe 2010 was almost a decade ago I find myself referring to "the turn of the century" a pretty decent amount these days.
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We are 2 years from college/university students being born after 9/11
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9/11 fading from a majority of adult’s living memory can’t come soon enough.
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One of the guys on my rocket project wrote his birthday down the other day, I saw a "99" in there and drat near had an aneurysm.
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In 3ish years Apollo 13 the Tom Hanks movie will be the same time span from Apollo 13 the space mission as the then-present.
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Nirvana's album Nevermind was written closer to the end of the Vietnam war that it was to today, by nearly a decade.
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Man, gently caress you guys.
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ausgezeichnet posted:Man, gently caress you guys. The time between the end of the original Star Trek and Star Trek: The Motion Picture, and the release of Half-Life 2: Episode 2 and today is now the same
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If you were born before 19 September 1993, the date of your birth is closer to the Moon landing than to the present day.
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vessbot posted:In 3ish years Apollo 13 the Tom Hanks movie will be the same time span from Apollo 13 the space mission as the then-present. These are the kind of comparisons that make me feel old as poo poo
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Platystemon posted:If you were born before 19 September 1993, the date of your birth is closer to the Moon landing than to the present day. Given that I was born before the moon landing, this has been true for a very long time. 
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vessbot posted:In 3ish years Apollo 13 the Tom Hanks movie will be the same time span from Apollo 13 the space mission as the then-present. Tom Cruise is two years older than Tom Skerritt was when he played Viper in Top Gun. In 1986.
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BIG HEADLINE posted:Tom Cruise is two years older than Tom Skerritt was when he played Viper in Top Gun. In 1986. TALK TO ME GOOSE!
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Goose died crashing into a window.
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