SquawkBox - no display of anything even where flights show a Mode A/C squawk

[Fenris]

I've installed SquawkBox and it correctly connects to the Radarbox port 30003 output, this is outputting correctly when viewed with telnet, and I can see the squawk codes that do appear in RB in the telnet window. SBSPlotter works correctly too, so that's another check.

SquawkBox just sits there displaying nothing at all. I set a filter with 0-7777, show, active and still nothing. I don't see many aircraft with squawk codes showing, but not a single one has appeared in the SquawkBox window. Squawk code look ups work OK.

Am I doing something wrong? I have Vista, and there are no error messages so the .NET framework is installed.

Puzzled!

[tarbat]

Make sure you've only got ONE program connected to port 30003.  If you're running Telnet or sbsplotter at the same time as Squawkbox, it won't work.

[Fenris]

Ah right, I hadn't expected that. Is that an RB limitation, I would expect it to be able to handle multiple clients from one port?

[tarbat]

Yes, it's an RB bug.  Only the first conneciton to port 30003 works, any subsequent connections get incomplete data.

[Fenris]

Yes, it's an RB bug.  Only the first conneciton to port 30003 works, any subsequent connections get incomplete data.

OK, that's explained then. I got SquawkBox to work this morning, as a single connectee.