The effects are immediately very improved. I don’t know it’s whether raising the aerial by 7ft or getting it clear of the stub that’s made this improvement. It’s seeing more than the receiver I installed at the Martello Tower Group earlier this year.
That’s pretty nice performance. Height really seems to make a big difference. Are you able to get a receiver up on the radar tower with the repeater? That would be a really nice location.
This isn’t working for me. The page loads but shows no data.
If I try to load the dump1090-fa page it’s similar:
It’s working but it’s a bit flakey at the moment. I think the cellular connection is struggling.
I think it’s very unlikely we could get one up the radar tower. It costs us £200 each time someone climbs the tower and I think we’d get blitzed by everything else up there.
Makes me want to get my antenna up on the chimney now - I have pretty much everything I need to do it, save a willing volunteer to help me get up there.
I put my antenna in a tree and it still improved reception, compared to the roof of the house (only one story), even with all the leafs around it.
PS: I have stopped sharing directly my feed because of privacy. On that internal page one can zoom in to the exact location (address).
May not be the case with everyone.
This is what attracted me to RadarBox. Others can see your feed, but your web location is moved away from the actual one. I would have preferred they did not bother at all showing the location on that page.
Also, no router setup involved, or net security concerns.
Well if you use the default dump1090-fa options, the lat/lon is rounded to 2 decimal digits.
But if you live exactly on round numbers …
Anyway you could always run combine1090 to get a 2nd dump1090-fa instance and configure a “wrong” location in combine1090.
Just changed it so the configuration file location takes precedence over the piaware location file.
