Month: December 2021

How to Make the Ultimate Christmas Dinner Pie

How to Make the Ultimate Christmas Dinner Pie

Make 500g of shortcrust pastry (Calum Franklin recipe) and measure into a 350g and a 150g ball, put in fridge in cling film Also put 7inch pan or cake tin in fridge, lined on the outside with foil Wizz Parsnips, Carrots and dark meat, put in a mixing bowl Dice (1cm) white meat and add …

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How-To: Host two ADS-B receivers on one Raspberry Pi

How-To: Host two ADS-B receivers on one Raspberry Pi

Using one Raspberry Pi to run two instances of dump1090-fa listening to two FlightAware FlightStick Pro Plus with two antennas Firstly, this how-to assumes there’s already a pi running dump1090-fa with a FlightStick and antenna, and that it is all already working – like this. Secondly, FlightSticks tend to all have the same serial number …

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ADS-B antenna and stats – Antenna D

ADS-B antenna and stats – Antenna D

This is a work-in-progress and relates to this article on further developments beyond the details below. The design is antenna B with an additional two half-wavelength elements, making an 8.5-element antenna. See here for a stats comparison.

How-to: combine multiple ADS-B feeds into one display

How-to: combine multiple ADS-B feeds into one display

How to draw multiple dump1090-fa instances into a single map and table using combine1090 While comparing amendments to my antenna designs by running two antennas side-by-side I’ve been interested to know whether the aircraft positions received by the lesser-performing antenna’s dump1090 are a subset of those received by the better-performing antenna’s dump1090 or whether some …

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ADS-B antenna and stats – Antenna Y1

ADS-B antenna and stats – Antenna Y1

This is a work-in-progress and relates to this article on further developments beyond the details below. As a result of my inability to stop messing with new ideas I’ve deviated (hopefully only temporarily) from the plan to make minor, iterative alterations to a basically-similar antenna design in order to establish the effectiveness of each individual …

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