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Building and installing a PilotAware ATOM Station to detect and re-transmit glider and

Mode-S MLAT locations and provide Virtual RADAR SERVER December 2020.

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Page 1: ...g and Naming your Site 9 Location Information 9 Station Name 10 Downloading and installing ATOM GRID Software 11 Configuring the Software for your Specific Location 11 Logging in 11 Configuring your I...

Page 2: ...l time METARS for your club members to see before flight V You will provide real time METARS in flight to anyone who has an inexpensive PilotAware installed in their aircraft VI Its great fun and also...

Page 3: ...in and Management GRID Ground Relay Infrastructure Domain ATOM is the Ground Station and GRID is the network ATOM GRID Uplink Thank you for considering to help expand the Ground Network to provide add...

Page 4: ...Charge 6 An RTLSDR software defined Radio tuned to pick up FLARM signals 7 An RTLSDR software defined Radio for Mode S and ADSB data collection 8 A Raspberry Pi Mains to 5 2V 2 1A power supply Or powe...

Page 5: ...ter in this document All data collected can additionally be used to provide a feed for a local Virtual RADAR screen which will show local PilotAware FLARM ADSB traffic in real time and Mode S traffic...

Page 6: ...to 10M is OK Note up to 16 metres has been shown to work using the recommended HDF 400 coaxial cable Mains power is usually required within 2 metres of the Raspberry Pi for the Raspberry Pi mains to 5...

Page 7: ...ay Construction The following screenshot shows a typical antenna array with all three antennas supported by a single pole Alternatively 3 individual poles can be used The parts for making up this and...

Page 8: ...ired to convert the N Type connectors on the co axial cable to the SMA or Mcx connectors of the RTL SDR dongles This will be bespoke to your installation In this example a N type to SMA converter and...

Page 9: ...com product rosetta p schellenberg nl ogn index latlon html on your computer When the program opens usually at a location in Europe drag the red marker to the position of your installation and you wil...

Page 10: ...please keep your station name to a maximum of 7 characters If it is an airfield it is conventional to give its ICAO code such as EGBW for the example of Wellesbourne When you have configured your soft...

Page 11: ...the files eject the card from your computer and load the SD card into the UNPOWERED Raspberry Pi Power up and leave for about 20 minutes to allow the files to unpack and self configure 6 There will be...

Page 12: ...router is powered down it may allocate a different IP address This is called dynamic IP allocation This can be overcome by giving the OGN R a fixed IP address How this is done varies between router m...

Page 13: ...in pi Enter password 12345678 Enter pi ognpaw config Enter You should then see something like this 21 32 48 FILESYS Mount RW Stopping Services Do not plug in or remove any SDR dongles whilst this conf...

Page 14: ...ou want to change the Station Altitude AMSL in Metres 77 y N Type in Y followed by your station Altitude in Metres Enter This is the height of the antennas above Mean Sea level not the height above th...

Page 15: ...u do not get this message after about 20 minutes check that the connection to the router is secure and that you have access to the internet The configuration is now done and the PilotAware servers wil...

Page 16: ...lly be 1 2 The ground station will be shown as an ICON in the centre of the RADAR screen You must have selected show ground stations on your PilotAware Rosetta to see this 3 The OGN R station will app...

Page 17: ...le it is PWWilmcot P3I Data The number of PilotAware packets received today MLAT Connected means receiving MLAT data Internet Connected means connected to the internet Line 1 of the matrix shows the t...

Page 18: ...39CE41 1 2020 11 25 18 13 43 558 2020 11 25 18 13 43 609 316 179 2560 0 MSG 8 1 1 43EA47 1 2020 11 25 18 13 43 560 2020 11 25 18 13 43 610 0 MSG 8 1 1 43EA47 1 2020 11 25 18 13 43 566 2020 11 25 18 13...

Page 19: ...k there must be sufficient local 360 RADAR MLAT stations in the area There are over 1300 installed in the UK Installation of more inexpensive 360 RADAR receivers around your site 10Kms will improve th...

Page 20: ...d aircraft from the ground station Column 7 shows the altitude of the received aircraft G GPS Q BARO Rebroadcast When a FLARM target is detected its latitude and longitude will be re broadcast When an...

Page 21: ...wser equipped computer logged onto the same LAN wired or WIFI and type in the allocated IP address This will be something like 192 168 0 14 If your browser supports it you can just type in the hostnam...

Page 22: ...location and chose the units for the heights speeds etc Map Allows the user to apply distance rings choose colours etc Aircraft This allows a multitude of parameters to be set for the target aircraft...

Page 23: ...on Military Applications Antennas default dp B07PGPYY6R ref sr_1_fkmr0_2 keywords Ntype to SMA pigtail RG316 qid 156 9837131 sr 8 2 fkmr0 Note if you want to put your unit into an enclosure the a pigt...

Page 24: ...F8 qid 1533245968 sr 1 6 keywords Ethernet cable FLARM Antenna ogn pilotaware com or https fjhuahong manufacturer globalsources com si 6008806990472 pdtl Omni antenna 1130137384 868MHz 9dBi omni base...

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