What a change over the last couple of days - Two days ago was the highest for weeks and today has been the second lowest since all this kicked off, with only Easter Monday being lower.
No logic here at all.
Looks like it will not pass my feeder.
They made a stopover in Baku which leads to a route more south at the german/french border.
I can only catch it if altitude is high enough.
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One thing that hasnāt really changed in all this is the rankings on RadarBox because thatās based on maximum and average range. Iād love to be able to contact the person who is #2 in the UK because he has a fantastic coverage (although very few aircraft at the moment) over the north of Scotland from the Outer Hebrides and Iād like to have his data feed into Essex Radar. Itād really help my coverage up there.
and uptime
My ranking of the outdoor receiver with better performance is now below the indoor receiver because i shut it down during nighttimes.
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Oh thatās useful, Iāll do some hunting, thanks. Or if you know his full call, could you drop me a PM please.
Coincidentally Iāve actually been to where that receiver is (not that I knew it was there). Itās a very strange place - very pretty, but so isolated. Also itās apparently the windiest place in the UK.
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Iāve turned the trends measured by my London ADS-B setup into a short animation: London air traffic evaporates during COVID-19 crisis - YouTube
Partial graph of two of my deployments of all of March is pretty telling as well:
On my Dutch receiver I had a cronjob to rebooted the box after 10m of no incoming ADS-B message (wrote this when dealing with an Airspy driver bug at the time and forgot about it). It caused 3 reboots in a single night! (This thing normally sees ~most aircraft flying over all of The Netherlands, so no signal for 10m was pretty unthinkable.)
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I did not know about this:
https://www.airlinerwatch.com/2020/04/lack-of-commercial-flights-concerns.html
On your video you ask āWhats this then?ā I believe that was surveying flightsā¦
Yeah I guessed something like that. Iāve done some grepping of the logs, looks like itās OY-SNS from a company called Bioflight. Took off all the way from EMA to do this 4d in a row. (Then again in West Wales 2d later, again using EMA as its base.) Surely not to spot illegal sunbathing I ā¦ guess 
Sure! I can paste it here but donāt want to flood the topic, is there another more appropriate topic where I could share it? (Note that itās very much not high tech! But it definitely helped me when my Airspy was suffering because of IIRC power supply issuesā¦)
Oh yes please, how about in this one?
Not so much a trend as an observation.
One of the Australian Maritime Safety rescue planes has been doing more than usual training
Note the above graph where the plane appears on the water of Port Philip Bay.
The tracklog shows it spent quite a bit of time at 450ā or 500ā
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Hereās a bit more detail on the impact to forecasting.