Very nice. Their 1090 antenna claims 9dBi. Have you used it? Any good? The one I have now is only 5dBi, but I’m not sure there would really be a practical difference.
Yes, I have their 1090 antenna and it works well. The FA antenna didn’t exist at that time. Today, due to the 3X cost difference, I would be getting the FA antenna. Purely due to the high price.
From Amazon
"Currently unavailable.
We don’t know when or if this item will be back in stock. "
They’ll be in stock next week, sorry…supply chain issues.
Hey, this isn’t a bad problem to have! They’re more popular than expected!
–bob
OK, so I want to mount a unit on the roof of our shared-tenant office building. Now, this is more of a “ask forgiveness rather than permission” thing, and I have “unofficial” access to the roof and a metal AC unit with a power plug.
For obvious reasons, I don’t want to spend a ton of money, and I don’t have a mast to mount it to. I’d like a somewhat reasonable mag-mount option. Is this any better than the stock telescoping antenna that comes with the dongles?:
ebay.com/itm/Antenna-1090Mhz … 2ee3896247
If I could find a way to “mag mount” the Flightaware antenna, I’d be game for that if anyone knows a way… I’ve located a mag-mount with a female N connector, but not male… I’m sure this is an unusual request…
Adapters are cheap – just make sure you water-weather-proof the base, such as with self-vulcanizing tape covered with a good electrical tape.
bob k6rtm
this antenna is cheap and providing me with excellent coverage (300 miles and over)
l-com.com/wireless-antenna-1 … -connector
Just mount it upright.
R.
Better than the flightaware antenna? This one is 3.5dBi and the flightaware antenna is 5dBi What am i missing?
The antenna is very wideband and covers both 1090mhz and the lower 900mhz freq as well.
R.
Does it have better performance on the 1090 band than the Flightaware antenna?
If you need the 2.5 db based on your setup, then the flightaware is better.
For me, this antenna provides coverage almost to the theoretical limit of 225nm for a plane at 45Kft. (A plane at 45KFT altitude at a distance of 225 nautical miles is in line-of-sight to the receiver. Below that altitude, or farther out in distance, and the plane is ‘over the horizon’)
FT.
dear mr. dbaker,
i ordered your antenna and filter from the ebay shop you are promoting here. they charged 58$ for delivery to munich/germany - more than 2 weeks and still not delivered. that’s simply fraud. we order on a weekly basis at amazon.com, b&h and many others in the us - never had such a bad experience.
best
tom
I’m sorry about that, we’re working on getting Amazon Europe to carry the parts.
yup - too late for me but that is what your european feeders should be worth to you …
Took a while for the FA filters to get to me in UK too. They got stuck in customs then had to pay a surcharge to our post office when I collected them.
yup - and that’s why i said this is fraud. charging 58$ - there are several ways within 7 days straight to my door. the way they send does not cost half of what they charge. thanks for verification what i was anyhow awaiting here.
hopefully the antenna and filter are worth all this money/hassle and is not inferior to my jetvision one …
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
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:))) maybe - i thought it means they cheated me … and what does it mean correctly?
Looking at ebay, Flightaware does not sell antenna components, wifiexpert does. The price of each item is listed along with it cost of shipping to various countries. Any import taxes would be an additional cost. Knowing the total cost, no one forced you to click the buy button.