Finding the proper Gain for 1090 and 978

[foxhunter]

There are meanwhile a couple of threads about setting gain. Simply search and read

this one for example:

Thoughts on optimizing gain

The topic of gain comes up often enough and unlike some i don’t like the gain optimization script. Aircraft fading in and out of view make short term number gathering not that useful. The metric i like most for optimizing gain is the percentage of what dump1090 calls “strong_signals”. Those “strong_signals” are messages that get close to getting clipped. If you don’t care about some background you can scroll down to the next post for the HOWTO This is a clipped signal, the wa…