Had a bit of a range boost this evening:
A bit unusual for here - normally I don’t seem to get much change when others have reported it.
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Maybe because we have full moon currently…
That makes me sleepless, going to bed at 11pm and up at 0430am 
I’ve had some months of insomnia which I think I’m finally getting over now. I still find myself waking up in the early hours but I get up, throw all the ingredients in the bread maker, start the timer going and go back to bed. It’s nice to wake up a few hours later to fresh bread 
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The weather must play a role… This morning at around 5 I had 3 ground stations on my map. They’re gone now, but I can always see them on planefinder with same ICAO, so they are true transmitters. One of them, the nearest, some times pops up and disappears again. Never seen the two others.
I didn’t see planes further away then I’m used to though.
EDIT:
Same thing the other morning… Got a GND object near Roskilde Airport ~90 nmi away
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Conditions definitely up for me too 
I’m seeing aircraft up in Northern Ireland & Scotland at around 26,000 ft
The lift is extending right up from Band Two (FM) as my local radio stations are fading out in place of DX
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416 nmi or about 770km is the furthest signal received since I started using graphs1090 about a year ago
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I just checked for new ‘range spikes’ on Virtual Radar and this one popped up.
It seems to be the same flight above Greta Green (Scottish border) that Bram Jacobse picked up.
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I checked VRS flight log during the tropo window and it seems I found the flight that caused the huge spike in my distance stats:
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thats the one , i also check the flight on Keithma radar
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Is that using the reports feature in VRS? I just ran a report with the criteria set to Wake Turbulence is Heavy and it said no records are found.
In fact, I just told it to run the “Today’s Flights” reports and again, no records were found.
I’ve never used the reports before.
/edit - This is because I don’t have the database writer enabled, isn’t it? Damn.
/edit2 - Yes, I’ve enabled it and now it’s working.
Seems to be an ekranoplane:
ADS-B Exchange - track aircraft live
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Nice one Wiedehopf, so we all picked up the signals of “The Caspian Sea Monster”? 
Wiki: Caspian Sea Monster - Wikipedia
Great story, it looks like one of the original Thunderbirds or even a Soviet version of the Spruce Goose but I guess we just picked up the signals of an ordinary Ilyushin Il-76 with either some tropospheric ducting or with a wonky ADSB transponder.
@ Keithma: great max range graph, never seen something like that with a genuine virtual wall at 360nmi, hide it or the Flat Earth Society will use it to prove their point
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I don’t think so. It must have been something different. The Ekranoplane is not operational any longer, the last one was brought to Museum now
Now my range plot on VRS looks like this, giving me that spike:
EDIT: Checked my yesterdays report on VRS and I can confirm that it was the same aircraft.
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Well i thought it was obvious that an ekranoplane didn’t fly in the flight levels, they could never fly higher than in ground effect.
It’s probably an Ilyushin that somehow uses the output of a fixed IRU to provide ADS-B position.
The IRU was likely defective, it shouldn’t drift THAT much.
They might even have GPS or triple DME and use that to cancel out IRU drift, but for some reason the ADS-B transponder sometimes seems to be connected to the IRU positions output instead of the corrected position they see on their FMS.
Largely guessing here.
For me it was… but maybe not for all