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| PlaneGadget Radar | About ADS-B | Applications Information | FAQ | Terms and Conditions | Downloads |
PlaneGadget Radar - ADS-B Receiver
Finally a quality virtual radar receiver at a price you can afford, priced substantially lower than other receivers on the market but with all the performance you need.
The PlaneGadget Radar receives real time transmissions from commercial aircraft and through the PlanePlotter Lite software displays them on your PC, its like having air traffic control in your living room!
You can watch flights in your local area in real time within a practical range up to 100 Nm* with typical 1st floor window sill antenna position, greater if you have an ideal antenna position. Identify those airliners you see flying over, and even watch them stacking at your local airport!
Most large civil aircraft such as commerical airline flights carry equipment that transmits information over a system known as ADS-B.
ADS-B contains information like the name of the flight, the ICAO number of the aircraft, the aircraft's current position, speed and direction, and how fast the aircraft is decending/acending. This information is received by the PlaneGadget Radar and PlanePlotter software decodes this placing the aircraft on a map of your local area.
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Spare Parts Replacement Antenna For UK delivery inc post and packing £19.99 For EU delivery inc post and packing €29.99 |
Actual screenshot with supplied antenna on 1st floor window sill facing southeast from oxford
PlanePlotter Lite is provided by PlanePlotter from COAA Click Here to go to the COAA PlanePlotter website for more information.
*The range for the receiver is highly dependent on the positioning of the antenna. When the supplied magnetic antenna is placed conveniently on a window sill on a metal sheet (a biscuit tin is good) typical range is up to 100Nm miles out of that window, but may drop to 20 or less for aircraft behind the walls or through the roof of your house depending on the materials of construction. The ADS-B transmissions are "line of sight" which means that the range is less the lower the aircraft are as the curvature of the earth, local high ground and even buildings close by will reduce the signal. The best possible position for the magnetic base antenna is with clear sight on a steel sheet (biscuit tin is fine) but without any obstructions around it, however this can then be inconvenient for positioning of your PC! So in practice most users will accept a convenient position and accept aircraft detection range is 20-100miles when using the standard antenna depending on the whether an individual aircraft is behind the walls of your house or directly through the window in clear sight. Remember, that range is very dependent on antenna position and although other receivers advertise 250Nm range this is the theoretical maximum, in practice with the supplied antenna they also have a maximum practical range of 100nM or so on a window sill position, which is directly comparable to the performance of PlaneGadget Radar.
The PlanePlotter Lite software is provided by COAA and can be upgraded to a full version for 25 Euros (+VAT) see here. The full version has networking functions that allow you to share some information with other PlanePlotter users.
