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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1090MHz Reception.
To check whether you are receiving 1090 signals through the 1090MHZ antenna and RTLSDR
receiver log in from the home page
login:
pi (Enter)
password:
12345678 (Enter)
You may have changed the password
pi@ognpaw: $
nc localhost 30003 (Enter)
This is exercising port 30003
You should see a scrolling screen of data something like
pi@ognpaw
:
~ $
nc localhost 30003
MSG,8,1,1,43EA47,1,2020/11/25,18:13:43.549,2020/11/25,18:13:43.604,,,,,,,,,,,,0
MSG,3,1,1,39CE41,1,2020/11/25,18:13:43.550,2020/11/25,18:13:43.606,,23350,,,52.33328,-1.45993,,,,,,0
MSG,8,1,1,43EA47,1,2020/11/25,18:13:43.554,2020/11/25,18:13:43.608,,,,,,,,,,,,0
MSG,4,1,1,39CE41,1,2020/11/25,18:13:43.558,2020/11/25,18:13:43.609,,,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,8,1,1,43EA47,1,2020/11/25,18:13:43.566,2020/11/25,18:13:43.612,,,,,,,,,,,,0
MSG,7,1,1,4041E7,1,2020/11/25,18:13:43.574,2020/11/25,18:13:43.614,,3500,,,,,,,,,,
MSG,8,1,1,43EA47,1,2020/11/25,18:13:43.577,2020/11/25,18:13:43.615,,,,,,,,,,,,0
This can b stopped by typing in Control and C which will return you to the prompt
MSG,3,1,1,5083A3,1,2020/11/25,18:15:56.327,2020/11/25,18:15:56.374,,6725,,,52.27397,-1.58297,,,,,,0
^C
pi@ognpaw
:
~ $
Flarm Reception.
If the Flarm antenna tested correctly during the Config then the Flarm antenna will have
been shown to be working OK. Further proof and confidence will be obtained as gliders are
detected as the station gathers data and reports this to the various sites.
The Full Set of Receptions
The ATOM GRID ground station will pick up transmissions from aircraft equipped with any of
the following Electronic Conspicuity transmissions.
