Australian & New Zealand Data Feeders

dennisg · August 06, 2016, 12:26:17 AM

Seems more coverage over NZ recently. However many of the flights are not showing a radarbox station, just saying ADS-B. Does anyone have any idea what this means and how the flights are bring picked up?

Cheers,

Dennis

neroon79 · August 06, 2016, 04:45:18 AM

Hi Dennis,

I noticed the same over here in Germany yesterday evening (around 18:00 CEST, 16:00UTC). Forthermore the map temporaryly went blanc with airframe icon returning after some minutes. I re-checked at 4:30UTC and the effect was gone. So maybe some maintenance work in the background.

Regards Ingo

neroon79 · August 06, 2016, 04:54:37 AM

I did some further ckecking, and figured out that only Comstations and External Sharers (EXTSHA) were displayed with detailed numbers/names. So maybe ADS-B indicates, that the airframes data was delivered by RBCL (Classic Radarbox hardware / RB1). Furthermore I found several airframes with Station MLAT over here. I checked my own MyFlights list running with classic hardware and these airframes are indeed not ADS-B equipped.

Ingo

Runway 31 · August 07, 2016, 08:24:16 AM

Some MLAT became available over Europe on Friday as has some satellite ADSB coverage in the Pacific area. These also show on the RB network.

The FAA ASDI traffic is no longer time delayed and is now real time and at the same time as the above this was integrated into the network coverage having always been available on RB24. I found this as I was trawling the network for US GA traffic with no details using N1*, N2* etc wildcards for flight ID's and as I was doing N9* the network plots suddenly went from 13 to 42. The network was unstable for a time while they fined tuned it but it soon became stable.

Contrary to what some may say, work is going on all the time to bring improvements and increase coverage.

Alan

dennisg · August 07, 2016, 07:28:00 PM

That's great Alan, thanks for letting us know. Coverage over NZ is very good now.

Dennis

waituke · November 14, 2016, 12:17:38 AM

Will Radarbox not show all Helicopter activity around Kaikoura and Wellington due to severe Earthquake
Ciao
Kevin

Runway 31 · November 15, 2016, 09:32:06 PM

Kevin,

They will only show if ADS-B equipped and there is a feeder seeing them

Alan

waituke · May 31, 2017, 05:21:47 AM

I am noticing my coverage moves around a lot from 300km down to 80 km is there a reason for this. Nothing has changed physically
Thanlks
Kevin

Runway 31 · May 31, 2017, 07:49:56 AM

Suggest you ask support Kevin

Alan