Thinking of purchasing radarbox , does it show details of older aircraft with Mode C Transponders ??? if it does what info do you get on the screen
Sorry but Mode C aircraft are not picked up. Most commercial aircraft have Mode-S or ADS-B nowadays.
Ok thanks for the quick reply , I work for a company that operates with Mode C at the moment thought it would be a good idea to have the Radarbox in the Ops office if it picked them up.
Unless you have an interrogator (like a TCAS for the office), the old modes will require several receivers to do multilateration. It's complicated by the fact that Mode-A and Mode-C don't identify as such. They are just bits, so you have to use a bit of logic to put them in the right table.
If you had 4 receivers, 4 antennas, you could probably get a 3D display.
It would be cheaper to equip your fleet with ADS-B and then you get all sorts of good data, like GPS position, altitude, velocity over ground, etc.
Cheers Steve , got new aircraft arriving soon , they aren't your airliner types but they may be equipped with mode S then.
Thanks