Author: wpadmin

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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ADS-B 1090MHz Antenna Comparison Statistics

ADS-B 1090MHz Antenna Comparison Statistics

Note that this page is constantly being updated as antennas are tweaked and monitored. From To Antenna Station Max range (nmi) Max msg/s per aircraft Max aircraft Link 21/11/21 27/11/21 A A 81 38 30 http://tinab.blog/ads-b-antenna-and-stats-antenna-a 21/11/21 27/11/21 B B 254 62 70 http://tinab.blog/ads-b-antenna-and-stats 27/11/21 30/11/21 C A 263 74 65 http://tinab.blog/ads-b-antenna-and-stats—antenna-c 27/11/21 30/11/21 B …

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ADS-B antenna and stats – Antenna C

ADS-B antenna and stats – Antenna C

This is a work-in-progress and relates to this article on further developments beyond the details below. The design is a basic 6.5-element coaxial collinear antenna with a whip, feedline and chokes and is intended to mirror Antenna B in order to ensure comparisons are equal before moving on to experimenting with various changes. There are …

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ADS-B antenna and stats – Antenna A

ADS-B antenna and stats – Antenna A

For comparison and to assess the difference between differently-sized similarly-designed antennas I’ve been running this alongside Antenna B (here) to provide like-for-like data. This is a work-in-progress and relates to this article on further developments beyond the details below. The design is a basic 4.5-element coaxial collinear antenna with a whip, feedline and chokes. Performance …

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Dauphinoise Potatoes

Dauphinoise Potatoes

Serves 4 5 medium spuds 250ml cream & 250ml skimmed milk Rosemary and/or thyme 100g gruyere sliced very thinly Slice potato on mandolin thin, 2-3mm (or easily with knife – second attempt without checking recipe I did 3-4mm and all fine) Put 300ml cream with 200ml milk in pan Season Thyme Try nutmeg Simmer with …

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How To: Alloy Wheel Refurb DIY

How To: Alloy Wheel Refurb DIY

Bought two without tyres – quite good condition but still in need of attention – so as to refurb two, put new tyres on them, put them on the car, take tyres off two more, refurb those, put new tyres on them, onto the car, strip remaining two, refurb those, sell them. First effort was …

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