number of flight

[charlie]

Hello


What is a good number of flights to track?

Today between 0800 and 2200 local i had 1990 flights.

During the day I had between 80 and 140 flights displaying in 'My Flights' at any one time.

Is this good?

I am using a Watson antenna in the roof and live approx 40 miles NE of Stansted.

Yours
Charlie

[malc41]

Charlie

That's not just good its excellent

It would be interesting to see a polar diagram of your coverage

[bratters]

Roof antenna , 40 miles from Stansted and around 2000 flights?

Wow! Lucky you Charlie!

As Malc says, your polar diag. would be nice to see.

[daveg4otu]

That is excellent ...nice to be somewhere flat.

Here at Torquay I am halfway up the N E  side of a 600ft hill facing into Lyme Bay...so the "view" to the S & W is a bit restricted.

Antenna is a MD1105 on a biscuit tin on Flat roof.

A good day ( only got  a couple of weeks to  quote from so far ) will produce  approx 1200 in   about 14 hours.

Today in atrocious weather (can't see top of bottom of hill- vis about 100yds)- 4 hour so far produced 734 contacts

Here is  polar diagram

[charlie]

hello

I put my Radarbox on 10 mins ago and have picked up 178 contacts

Here are a couple of screen shots

[malc41]

Charlie, want to swap homes!! ;-)

Your kit is working really well, is there something in the way to the south though?

[charlie]

I live a fairly built up area and wherever I move my antenna south is poor.

But I we are planning to move house to a smaller and less dense populated area and then the antenna will be outside on the roof.

This will hopefully aid my other hobby ham radio

[malc41]

Good luck with that, if you get the aerial higher and outside goodness knows what you contacts you will get.

Just out of curosity what aerial are you using?

[charlie]

It's a Watson I can't remember the model number but I bought it from Rocket Radio.

If you contact them I am sure they will tell you.

It was about eighty pounds

[malc41]

Thanks Charlie much appreciated