My Mode-S aircraft count is similar to stations next to me in the ranking. How is it that one usr has 3 times the position counts and another has 30 times the position counts for the same number of aircraft.
Is this a setting in PiAware or a quality issue with the antenna or some other reason
Should I care about this stat ? If I should how would I go about improving it?
If it’s not changed high numbers of ModeS “positions” usually indicate that you are receiving noise.
Also it’s incorrect to call that counter positions if i’m not mistaken about how it works.
It’s been discussed, no change has been made as far as i know.
Result of the discussions: The ranking is somewhat useless, the “other positions” are completely useless to include in the ranking.
You could further customize the columns shown, but that’s not noob proof.
If you want to check, look at the config.js mentioned in the readme on the page above.