hy guys,
we can know how many radarbox users existe in world?
Why i ask this?
Because i think is important to know if we can follow all the company flight.
And with this users in all world we have an idea about that.
Don't agree?
Thx.
The number of users should just have gone up with the first deliveries over this weekend and into early next week. Perhaps we should have a way of giving our locations to the comunity, if we are happy to do so.
Hi,
yes, users in each country, is that idea.
I hope the members can do that or Airnavsystems guys.
You could do something like the map of SBS-1 users - see http://sbs.jetvision.de/
Hi Guys,
Yes we have the details our self but we don't want to release them (locations) as that would be against the privacy of our customers. So yes will produce something like the google map for a temp solution just to give you guys an idea.
Hope that helps.
Hi,
we dont know the names of users but only numbers of user in countrys.
But ok, that idea of google map is good.
Thx very much.
What sort of details do you want? on a Google map?
- Forum ID or Station ID (This is up to the user)
- Position (not extremely accurate for privacy)
- Comments
- Whether they are using external anetnna or one supplied?
Anything else or is that enough?
Ok, this are ok.
No members names.
Google map is good.
Thx.
Support,
I think that's interesting to show the cities that are connected on network.
Thx,
As the first user in Ireland, I agree that a location/mapped referecne would be an excellent idea.
Dauphin_army.
it would be wonderful, as i am not sure if i am the only one 15 miles from heathrow or if there are others, i would love to know, just a dot to show base locations would be great.
As a side point, i spent this weekend fitting a 6 foot arial in my loft along with one for my scanner. i THINK i am getting better coverage now although the arial supplied was perfect anyway to be honest as long as you can get it as high as possible.
I only wish i could sit at the airport now with my laptop and scanner to see it all happen real and on radar, but with no wi fi, this is impossible, but one day who knows!
Quote from: sleepylondon on July 08, 2007, 09:19:33 PM
I only wish i could sit at the airport now with my laptop and scanner to see it all happen real and on radar, but with no wi fi, this is impossible, but one day who knows!
Hi there
You don't need wifi to see stuff if you are sitting at the airport. You will see enough just from local traffic, with the network switched off. I intend using my RB mobile more frequently than home based. Have a look from home without network switched on to see what I mean.
Mike
so when i disconnect from network and see 67 flights at heathow...there the ones i am picking up right?
This just gets better!!!
is it possible to buy a second arial, as my one is now set up in the loft, so another one to buy would be great now i know i can take it out and about on my laptop!
many thanks
heathrow snap shot NO NETWORK open is enclosed
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Thats correct sleepylondon, We have another customer in London and he gets a similar amount of coverage.
Looking at your home position you might be able to receive ground contacts are Heathrow with a external antenna.
I will pass on your request to have the antennas sold separately as well.
I have both SBS1 and RB. As a test when I first got RB I used a BNC to SMA converter on the end of the cable to my loft aerial (BS1100 replacement) and got all the aircraft I would have seen on the SBS1 on the RB. I also tried using the original SBS1 aerial on it, and the RB one on that and stood both aerials on my windowsill. They both picked up exactly the same aircraft going into Luton with all details the same (Heading, Altitude, Flight No, hex registration etc). I have also used the original SBS1 aerial with the BNC to SMA converter and it worked as well.
What I am saying in a round about way is that any aerial for the 1090 frequency should work with the RB, and having to use the converter does not appear tio have reduced its effectiveness.
Mike
Perfect, Roadrunner, just what I've been waiting for.
So as far as you're concerned RB and SBS-1 are equal in sensitivity?
CK
hi
that is helpful thankyou
an arial for sale here that i could buy knowing it will work would be awesome
i will watch this space!
then it is possible i could watch ground traffic too??? wowowowow!
as a side note, does anyone else get told "time limit expired" on RB, its happened 3 times, but i didnt think there was a time limit.
Quote from: CanadaKen on July 09, 2007, 01:53:09 PM
Perfect, Roadrunner, just what I've been waiting for.
So as far as you're concerned RB and SBS-1 are equal in sensitivity?
CK
I am not saying that at present as I believe that SBS1 has a slight edge over the RB. However, there may be upgrades that improve this.
Ok then....I'll be keeping an eye on what all you and DaveG have to say. :-)
CK
As an SBS and RB user, it was interesting to read Mikes comparison. Where he totally lost me was bnc and sma converters. Are these the 2 aerial fixings ? Would it be possible to have 1 external or loft aerial and then split the feed to goto an sbs and radarbox at the same time ??
I agree that they give similar output but have noted in an earlier post that Airnav needs to fine tune radarbox , which will come in time, to get the same level of ease of use and performance as sbs.
The sooner those ?? are removed from the "write new aircraft to database" feature in the to do list the better !!
Rgds
When I referred to BNC to SMA connector I was referring to the aerial connection.
SBS1 uses BNC RadarBox SMA. If you us the connector various aerials are immediately available to you. However, I do not know what the signal loss is.
I'm running both an RB and an SBS-1 in parallel and in my case the SBS-1 is rather more sensitive. In some cases where the SBS-1 is showing aircraft with position data, the RB is showing "Flight does not have position information". A bit disappointing in that respect...
At the time I'm writing this email there are 30 connected users from UK, Germany, Netherlands, Australia, Japan, Brazil, Spain. The product has just been released and we are receiving many orders daily. Expect this to grow to almost a pan european coverage in a few months.
i actually took screen grabs the day i got it , so i can look back to the good old days when only a few of us had it! in a few years it will be great to know US GUYS were there at the beginning :-)
Regards
sleepylondon AKA mark
QuoteAt the time I'm writing this email there are 30 connected users from UK, Germany, Netherlands, Australia, Japan, Brazil, Spain.
Hi AirNav Development:
I have been here since morning ... later on another
Portuguese, in Lisbon, as shared to.......... you forgot us :( !!!
Iceman
Interesting this topic is again active. After 1 year we now have an average of 150 units connected and more than 2000 users. :-)
That's only 7.5% of owners sharing data. Is the 150 units the number of those connected at any moment in time? So that in fact over the course of a month basically everybody is connecting to the Network at some point? Or is it that only 150 are regularly connected?
We have stats which show that while there is about 60 units which we can describe as on all the time the others are vary a lot. We can easily view the unique units connected per day is 250-300 per day. Thats almost a 1/3 of the boxes sold.
It would be interesting to know why 2/3 aren't connected. The hardware isn't cheap, so you don't take up this hobby only to get bored of it after a few weeks. It can't be because the hardware/firmware/software is so unreliable that it's a chore to use, because it's not. It also can't be support issues, as this Forum is by far the best I've ever encountered regarding any product.
Bethsalem,
Sorry you may have misunderstood my post. That was on average per day 1/3 of the current RadarBox connect up which is a large amount. To those actually connecting and activating there free years network its nearly 95%+.
To those who don't connect they use the device on mobile vehicles or trips and such.
Pretty impressive stats :)