Thanks Henning - will look out for your feed :-)

Mark, just to confirm I'm "GP" and sharing non curfew hours. Location lower Hills District. Seeing plenty of your "EW" plots this morning. :-))

There were a few MLATs about earlier, so things are on the improve.

Grahame if you need some help with your SBS project (BaseStation & PlanePlotter) to get it up and running, don't hesitate to give one of us a call.

That goes for any of the other PP sharers in the Sydney basin who want to get on the MLAT bandwagon.

Guys I am the SMU for Sydney area (vP), and based on stats from yesterday we had 69 auto mlats, normally its been under 10, if any at all, for a 24 hour. So something has improved heaps.

Steve

Hi Steve

John at PP advised that he had lost your link, so you may not have been sharing, so he has temporarily made me SMU, but happy for you to be SMU if you are running 24/7. Let me know.

Cheers
Mark

Hi Mark

If you want SMU by all means you can have it. But it looks like I still am. This morning I am seeing Sector MU raw reports almost up to 1,000, whereas recently it was down to a couple of hundred, which generated 0 fixes.

I have been online 24x7 except for a blue screen (bloody USB server) which happened the other day when I was at work. I have also resorted to restarting PP every morning, due to some recent postings about SMU connection problems.

Would be good to see a map, which you can read, exactly where the SYD feeders are.

We are generating mlats this morning.

Steve

Something is working well now, in the 4 hours since 6am, we have had 127 auto fixes.

Steve

Hi Steve

Great to see this improvement - now just need a few more sharers. Also I have just sent you a PM.

Cheers
Mark

Good to see the auto MLATs are up and working well.

Thanks to those who are participating in the project. It's been a long time to get this up and running so well. Thanks especially to the Sydney SMU, whether it's Steve or Mark.

Noel

It appears its both of us at the moment, not sure how that works, not sure how all this auto mlat stuff works under the hood, but something is working well at the moment.

Lets hope it stays that way.

Steve

Not a map, but you can build a map with it.
http://g4est1.no-ip.org/MyWeb/g4est/..._published.php

That 'mapping' appears to be very inaccurate judging from my own position. Of course there are good reasons for not giving very accurate coordinates.

PPs own GPX overlay is good enough to see where approximate positions are & give sharing status as well (SMU,GS etc) if you look at the sharer's map.

http://www.coaa.co.uk/sharerlocations.php

http://www.coaa.co.uk/pp-user-charts.htm

I take that back! It seems I needed to restart GE before getting an 'accurate' fix (I changed settings to Decimal Degrees which in the past seemed to be instantaneous). In any case it is about on par with PPs own maps & GPX overlay.

Hi Mark, We are running neck and neck over the last 30 days on the FlightAware global rankings. Interesting that we are both so close on Aircraft Seen, but I seem to be reporting four times more aircraft Positions (maybe I am tracking each aircraft for longer?). Our YSSY Forum Flight Crew is currently ranked 5th in the world.

Do you have the Mode-S codes for the YSSY vehicles ?

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Hello all.

I'm new to this forum. I have recently started sharing my ADS/B data on Flightaware. I'm located in Western Sydney and my aspect to the east towards the coast is not great but I do pretty well to the N/W with the home-brew antenna I'm using.

How can I join the YSSY Flight Crew? My username on Flightaware is hadoman.

Thanks.

Col

I have been experimenting a fair bit with the antenna setup but I think I can average around 950 aircraft each day from my main site.

Look here...message #21. http://yssyforum.net/board/showthread.php?t=9535&page=3 .

Which vehicles were you after Grahame?

Some ground vehicles now show up nicely on FlightRadar 24 but with no ID - ARFF and Safety would be nice Nigel, if that is permitted.

Thanks Donald.

I have submitted an invite request.


Col

Here's just a few from what I can see around the place. There are a lot more than these, and I'm sure someone else has a list going somewhere.

7CF452 - Car 4
7CF44E - Car 5
7CF441 - Car 9
7CF447 - Car 11
7CF449 - Car 66
7CF45C - Truck 39
7CF45A - Tractor-1 (slasher)
7CF459 - Tractor-2 (slasher)
7CF47E - Mower 4 (ride-on)

I'm not sure about the ARFF ones.

Thanks Nigel, much appreciated.

Hi Nigel

How doe the Car numbers work? Are they assigned daily, weekly? I have seen letters on the cars eg:

7CF450 Car L
7CF452 Car B

Cheers
Mark

Hi everyone,

I'm new here on the forum and I set up an ADS-B feeder less than a week ago with an RTL-SDR USB dongle. I'm using the dongle's stock antenna next to the window at my house in the southern suburbs of Sydney.

Unfortunately, the neighbours' houses block my line of sight to the NW and SE as the antenna's not up high enough, and there's a slight ridge for the 180 degrees in between those two compass points also. Between the other 180 degrees, however, my range is quite good, and I get reception out almost to Parkes, Young, Canberra and Moruya (around 275 km/150 nm). I'm surprised that the tiny bundled antenna pulls in signals from so far away. I've attached a screenshot from Virtual Radar Server with my range plot – each circle is 30 km.

My next step, hopefully, is to get the antenna onto the roof so that I can get unobstructed views in all directions. Unfortunately, getting a higher gain antenna is out of my budget at the moment.

I'm currently sharing in Planeplotter as 'jn' and on Flightaware as 'eastons'.

I have made a map using Google Earth (see attachment). :)

If anyone knows who ed, vl or xz are, I can add them to the map.

I'm not in Sydney but share ADS-B from Wagga.

I host a FR24 receiver (F-YSWG1) which has a great range for it to be located in a valley (~190 AMSL) and also picks up GND AC on the runway and on the taxiway (from the runway to around the disused control tower). I can't share the FR24 box data.

With FlightAware (YFDN), I've brought my RTL2832U/R820T USB dongle (using a DIY coax collinear antenna) back online with the use of a laptop but soon to be Raspberry Pi. The range is less (north is worse), a lot slower as well and doesn't pick-up GND.

I am vl.

Hi Mark,

Sorry, I missed seeing this until just now.

Each car was assigned a letter a few years ago, but when the Vee-Lo's were introduced, the cars were then assigned a specific car number. The Vee-Lo that pumps out the code for, say Car 66, is only found on one vehicle (Car P from memory). Car L is Car 72, Car B is Car 11 (I think).

The newest cars (new livery) have been allocated a car number, clearly seen on the side of the car and bonnet. However, if one of these cars goes off-airport for maintenance, we do have spare pre-programmed Vee-Lo's which are attached with magnets and powered off the 12V car charger points. This will be the only time when the Vee-Lo won't correspond with what car you're visually looking at, although you will see there's two Vee-Lo antenna on the roof of the car.

Hope this helps
Nigel

Hi Mike,

Sorry, I missed your post until now. I've updated the map to show your name. I've also filled in 'ed'. Only 'xz' remains unknown.

Edit: The thumbnail doesn't seem to load for me for some reason, but the full image works if you click on it.

Flightradar24 have sent me one of their receivers which I've now put on my roof. Even with only a few hours of runtime so far, I have significant coverage improvement compared to my DVB-t dongle.

I've had some hits in excess of 450 km (240 NM) away. My range now gets out to around Nambucca Heads, Port Macquarie, Armidale, about 100 km beyond Tamworth, about 50km beyond Narrabri, Coonamble, around 100 km beyond Dubbo, Condobolin, West Wyalong, Temora, Junee, Wagga Wagga, Tumut, about 50 km beyond Canberra, Jindabyne, Bombala and Eden.

My range out to sea isn't so good though - only about 250 km - as I have hills and high-rises blocking my view towards that direction. I don't have anything in the south-east yet either, but I think that's just because there haven't been any flights there yet. I am also getting ground coverage - I'm under 10 km from the airport.

I've attached an image of my range after a few hours of running the receiver. The rings are 50 km apart and the outermost ring is 450 km.