as i wrote - ‘the ebay shop you are promoting here’ - didn’t say a word about taxes and charging more than costs are for delivery method is what i said - even in ebay rules. but thanx for your valuable input.
HAHA! I get it!
Let’s calm down and gather facts before accusing the seller of wrong doing. I have ordered from the eBay user several times with no issue. It takes time for delivery to Germany. In fact, your country has the highest delays caused by your import/customs system. What was the listed transit times when you ordered? I sure know they didn’t claim 7 days… I just looked up their ad. They have it listed as 20-30 days for shipping to Germany. NOT 7 days!
Maybe the language difference is causing this, but you constantly make accusing posts about one thing or another. You will get a lot more help if you’re a bit more friendly with your wording. I think I’m being nice suggesting this as the cause.
I don’t know this seller, other then buying from them several times last year. They shipped within a day and it shipped out of the West coast of the US.
You have no idea what it costs to send packages from USA to Germany. Once again, looking up the ad, the antenna is $24USD to Germany. Each additional antenna is $15USD. The filter is $12 USD to Germany. Each additional filter is $2USD. If you think you can get faster service at the same cost or less, please prove it. There are faster ways, but not at that price. You paid for (and are getting) USPS First Class Mail Intl / First Class Package Intl Service for your order.
And when it arrives, be ready with cash to pay the customs fees, or it will get returned.
You must have been aware of the delivery cost when you pressed the “Checkout” button so not fraud. Once the package is in the post there is nothing FA can do to speed it up. As I said above, UK customs held my package for over a week. I checked the dates on all the stickers on the package.
hi triggers, they ask 24$ for antenna only → if they add the cable and filter → the costs jump up to 50$ → and finally a tiny pigtail adds again 8$. i’m shure they will send in the same package as if i had only bought the antenna. usps charges them with about half what i paid - and that is why i said they cheated me. i think things like this are fraud, others may say this is great service. additional fact is that i had to pay this at ‘wifi_expert’ because fa did not have managed within more than 3 months a better way for us over here in europe …
p.s. as we order regularly in the us - i know they did something wrong with invoice/export - otherwise things are delivered to my door where i have to pay tax(es). now i have to drive 12 miles to customs to finally get what i already paid for
p.p.s. finally looked in my dictionary - ‘fraud’ seems to be the wrong expression - cheat, scam or swindle seems to be what i wanted to say
finally the my flightaware antenna from wifi_expert odyssey ended ok.
i had to drive 20 miles to customs because - as i assumed they forgot to place the export invoice outside the packet. now i wrote them an email about the superslow delivery to europe an their mistake with the invoice. the result is - they refunded 50$ of 58$ shipping costs.
so - it wasn’t fraud as i feared - it was just goofy - and their refund was very fair.
CONGRATULATIONS! At last!
Waiting to see results. Hope the result will wash away all the frustration.
YEEES ABCD- HALLELUJAH - PRAISE THE LORD :)))
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Just got mine from Amazon, very excited to set it up. One question, what’s the gain of the antenna? The Amazon page said 5dB but the antenna itself is marked as 6dB (written by hand), which is correct?
i’d say 5db 
as my other antenna from jetvision (spec is 5db) seems to be exactly on par with the flightaware …
but what i found and is much more important than theoretically specs is that both antennas are not soooo omnidirectional.
so - if at your location there is a hotspot of traffic - try turning the antenna around the vertical axis to improve your sites reception.
regards
tom
I bought this antenna from Amazon, and it makes a huge difference to the little antenna the ADS-B RTL-SDR receiver comes with.
I completely agree. Question though; I am seeing great coverage from the west, and not so great from the east. The antenna is in the open, so I’m wondering if rotating the antenna (as silly as it sounds) would make any difference?
It’s omnidirectional, so it shouldn’t benefit from rotation.
There can be several different reasons which make your range in east inferior than in west:
(1) Maximum range in any direction depends on the altitude of highest flying plane in that direction. It may be possible that flight routes in your area are such that higher planes are in west, and lower in east.
(2) The terrain around your site is such that it blocks view of horizon to east due to hills or land gradient (site located at a point which has much lower ground level than east, and much higher than west).
(3) Trees or houses/buildings in east which have roof line above your antenna.
(4) The antenna is not omni-directional.
Item (3) can be checked by you by climbing up the location of antenna installation and looking in east.
Item (2) can be checked, using method given in my post:
What is the Maximum Range I can Get?
Item (4) does not seem to apply to a professionally designed, built & tested antenna like FlightAware’s. However to make sure, you can use a true omni antenna to see if that gives uniform range in east & west. True omnis are
(1) The “optimized” stock antenna which was supplied with DVB-T.
(2) Cantenna
(3) Spider
All these 3 true-omni antennas are given in my post:
Three Easy DIY Antennas for Beginners.
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Came across this on Amazon. Someone is nuts. FlightAware you might want to put water marks on this pictures. Copyright?
@sjacket99:
(1) He sure is nuts. Look at the prices. He is offering at more than double the price offered by FlightAware. Who will buy from him?
(2) The antenna
(a) May not be a copy of FA antenna. This seller may be a "reseller", selling original FA antenna.
(b) May be a clone of FA antenna, in which case FlightAware may take legal action, if they wish so.
Link available for the knockoff listing?
I don’t know if it’s a reseller or not. But wow. I’ll buy one from FA.
Very strange! No relation to FA but maybe our antenna; we’ve sold thousands. Ships from Israel.