Airband Radio's & Virtual Radars. . .

[bryanmalt]

Hey All

Just wondered where I'm best buying a new airband scanner from. . .under £100 if possible.

Also ive been reading about these plug into laptop or computer radars?? SBS ?

Whats the cheapest?

Finally Ive now discovered flightradar24.com . . very useful but are there any other uk based sites like this ?? im trying to make it work on my phone but no luck.

Thanks everyone

[Biggles]

For some quirky/techy reason these online radar programmes seem to work better when operated with Mozilla Firefox as a browser and not Internet Explorer ? Maybe downloading that onto your mobile may help. New phones are using android technology which also be better but I have no experience of that yet.

Ebay is always a good start for a scanner, I managed to get a brand new in the box icom ic-r5 well under £100.

[Beemer]

I have never been able to make Flightradar24 work in the past but since downloading Google Chrome it works brilliantly. It updates about every 20 seconds or so and some aircraft appear bang on time over my house while on approach. The RY444 was about a minute ahead of the screen image but the FR38WV was only seconds ahead. Regards Beemer.

[denim402]

Don't know how I missed that one,, thanks for the heads up Beemer!

www.flightradar24.com/

Jul 2, 2010 18:18:43 GMT 1 Beemer said:

I have never been able to make Flightradar24 work in the past but since downloading Google Chrome it works brilliantly. It updates about every 20 seconds or so and some aircraft appear bang on time over my house while on approach. The RY444 was about a minute ahead of the screen image but the FR38WV was only seconds ahead. Regards Beemer.

[satcom]

Jul 3, 2010 14:52:03 GMT 1 @starways said:

I'm trying to make it work on my phone but no luck.

If you have an Iphone ,ipod touch or ipad you can download a program called plane finder www.pinkfroot.com/home/ which is free and works brill on my ipod. there is also a programe called plane plotter which is not free, but is a far better prog,you can config it to send sms alerts to your mobile. The scanner have a look at Maplin in Liverpool city cent or maplin on line.
Starways

Here's an example of Planeplotter in action , using its unique Mlat facility to track just those a/c you won't normall see on virtual radars.
Focus of attention in the animation is the Vulcan flying to and from Waddington on Sunday...

i48.tinypic.com/2h2kzty.gif

If I was starting from scratch , I'd just pay 37 Euros for Planeplotter initially and use that rather than commit 400-500 Euros on a virtual radar box.

[bryanmalt]

Cant find plane plotter. . . well I did but it does require a radar box . . .??

Would be good to have a real time virtual radar based online ..

Thanks everyone for the replies

[satcom]

Cant find plane plotter. . . well I did but it does require a radar box . . .??

www.coaa.co.uk/planeplotter.htm

Its a standalone programme , no radar box needed
It provides network data from hundreds of ground receivers across Europe , Australia and the USA.


With a little patience , average PC knowledge and by following the Set Up Wizard you can be up and running in less than an hour , including registration.


John

[bryanmalt]

Thanks for the link
I have really tried and Im not bad with computers myself I just cant get it to work??

[satcom]

Jul 6, 2010 23:33:07 GMT 1 bryanmalt said:

Thanks for the link
I have really tried and Im not bad with computers myself I just cant get it to work??

As a downloader only Bryan , you will only see ADS-B traffic if you register the sw. [ 25 Euros ]
The unregistered version does however let you use ACARS and HFDL


If you want register and try again....pm me and I'll help set you up using team viewer

[satcom]

There's now a new virtual radar unit available which has been fully tested and approved for multilateration work...

Here's last weeks release from the creator of the PGR


We are pleased to announce that in support of the fabulous PlanePlotter mlat
system new PGRs (Version 2.2 and above) are now fully approved as an Mlat
Ground station.

Multilateration (Mlat) is a feature of the PlanePlotter network that uses
precision timing data from Mlat capable receivers to calculate the position
of aircraft that are not otherwise giving position information.

In order to use Mlat you will need:
- a full version of PlanePlotter (purchase at http://www.planeplotter.com)
- an internet connection with appropriate port forwarding
- an Mlat capable ADS-B receiver (the mlat PlaneGadget-Radar V2.2)
- enough other Mlat Ground Stations around you to provide sufficient data to
fix the position of aircraft in your local area

We understand that some existing PGR users will wish to mlat too...so we
will introduce in the near future a return to base upgrade option which we
will price at our cost. Please contact us if you are interested in this
option.

There is also a short guide to mlat and the PGR on our downloads page at
www.radargadgets.com


Warm Regards
Andy

[paravion]

Another one i found recently is casper ( no not the friendly ghost !)

casper.frontier.nl ( main site )
has 15 min delay on free version but can go back to previous days and times.
i tend to use casper.frontier.nl/egcc/ this also covers lpl.
not all ryn eze show reg though.
Shows reg on left hand side at bottom.

hth

Brian...

PS did a recent lhr trip then used this following day to see arrivals and departures not able to read off.

[Sabreliner]

paravion

If you want Heathrow or Gatwick Movements try using this website www.lhr-lgw.co.uk/ you can get a full list of movements for each day.

[richardheywood]

Sabreliner, is there a similar site for Luton movements?

[Sabreliner]

I don't know of any site that gives the movements for Luton Airport. There is a yahoo group that has reports of movements at Luton.

[Deleted]

Richard try Luton Airport Spotters on Yahoo, just register and you will get mail re what is or has been in Luton on a regular basis. Its a good tool to get tie ups etc.

See attached link

groups.yahoo.com/group/luton/

Bob