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PlaneGadget-Radar ADS-B Receiver
A quality virtual radar receiver priced substantially lower than other receivers on the market with excellent performance.
The PlaneGadget Radar receives real time ADS-B transmissions from aircraft and through the PlanePlotter Lite software, displays them on your PC like air traffic control.
You can watch flights in your local area in real time within a practical range up to 200 nM depending on location and antenna arrangement. Identify those airliners you see flying over.
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 descending/ascending. This information is received by the PlaneGadget Radar and PlanePlotter software decodes this, placing the aircraft on a map of your local area.
The PlaneGadget Radar PGR-2 kit comes complete with all you need for immediate use including:
- The USB PlaneGadget Radar Receiver
- PlaneGadget magnetic base antenna with 2 meters coax cable
- USB lead
- CD with PlanePlotter Lite software and USB drivers
The PlaneGadget-Radar is supplied with PlanePlotterLite software from COAA*. PlanePlotterLite lacks the data sharing facility of the full PlanePlotter software. For detailed information on PlanePlotter click here
PlanePlotterLite receives the information from the PlaneGadget-Radar receiver and displays it plotted on maps or in tabular form.
The PlanePlotter Lite software is provided by COAA and can be upgraded to a full version online for €25 Euros (+VAT for UK) see here. The full version has the networking functions that allow you to share information with other PlanePlotter users.
A guide to PlanePlotter is here http://planeplotter.pbworks.com/
Join the PlanePlotter yahoo group to ask questions and get together with other PlanePlotter users at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/planeplotter/
*COAA are the developers of PlanePlotter Software, and are an independent company separate from RadarGadgets and Mirrorbow Technologies Ltd
The receiver specification
· ADS-B (Automatic Dependent Surveillance Broadcast)
Receiver
· USB 2.0 connection
· Powered over USB 5V
· Plotting and message decoding of binary data by
PlanePlotterLite · (a version of PlanePlotter that does not include networking)
· .Antenna Connection – SMA Female 50 Ohm (Male on antenna)
· Antenna Included – magnetic base indoor whip antenna
· Plotting Software – PlanePlotterLite* included, full version supported
(requires upgrade)
· ADS-B messages supported
· DF17 (sub types
1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,29)
· DF0,DF4,DF5,DF11,DF16,DF20 (partial), DF21 (Partial)
· CE marking, tested and conforming to the requirements for sale within
the EU
The PGR from version 2.2 onwards is fully approved as an mlat ground station. Remember you need a full version of PlanePlotter for this feature as well as an internet connection and enough mlat enabled receivers in your area to get a fix. Please see www.planeplotter.com for more information on this.
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