really like the product, setup i used it inside house and got a range of up to 78 nautic miles, now after software installation and near a window i get exactly the double range - 150-160 nautic miles.
i am near to an airport and see always more then 20 aircrafts, even the grounded ones :)
will order a flat cable to be able to put an antenna outside to have better range
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I got the RadarBox to replace my old RTL-SDR TV dongle where the range was poor compared to a failed competitor stick I used a few years back. I have it plugged into an Intel NUC computer that I had lying around and run with a few different software packages to upload the data (and get the benefits of feeding those sites). Unfortunately, I am unable to feed RadarBox as they do not have a way to feed from an X64 platform and only ARM based ones.For the stick, it is not much bigger than a larger USB pen drive and has a USB plug on the one end and a SMA connector on the other for connecting to your aerial. I use a homemade co-linear aerial (there are instructions on the web but use the right cable and accurate cut elements) as when I started feeding ADSB data 9 years ago, ready-made kit was in short supply. This is then mounted above my roof line to give as clear a view of the sky as possible (although I live in a slight dip so it doesn't have quite a clear a view of the horizon as it otherwise would have).I found the stick was a drop-in replacement for the old TV tuner-based stick I was using, and I just needed to replace the original dongle pigtail with an F-type to SMA convertor. Immediately there was a huge increase in range, and I can now cover virtually all of England & Wales (just missing the tip of Cornwall and the Scottish border area) along with parts of Ireland and France. This is a range of around 150 Nautical Miles and peaks at around 200NM in places. Previously I was struggling to get much above 75NM. Since the core chipset is the same, this is most likely down to the better built-in filters and amplifiers.I am very happy with the dongle and would recommend this to anyone looking to either start ADSB feeding or replace aging kit. For new starters, go for the kit that includes the RadarBox aerial too unless you want to try your hand at building your own.
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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 24 April 2022
I got the RadarBox to replace my old RTL-SDR TV dongle where the range was poor compared to a failed competitor stick I used a few years back. I have it plugged into an Intel NUC computer that I had lying around and run with a few different software packages to upload the data (and get the benefits of feeding those sites). Unfortunately, I am unable to feed RadarBox as they do not have a way to feed from an X64 platform and only ARM based ones.
For the stick, it is not much bigger than a larger USB pen drive and has a USB plug on the one end and a SMA connector on the other for connecting to your aerial. I use a homemade co-linear aerial (there are instructions on the web but use the right cable and accurate cut elements) as when I started feeding ADSB data 9 years ago, ready-made kit was in short supply. This is then mounted above my roof line to give as clear a view of the sky as possible (although I live in a slight dip so it doesn't have quite a clear a view of the horizon as it otherwise would have).
I found the stick was a drop-in replacement for the old TV tuner-based stick I was using, and I just needed to replace the original dongle pigtail with an F-type to SMA convertor. Immediately there was a huge increase in range, and I can now cover virtually all of England & Wales (just missing the tip of Cornwall and the Scottish border area) along with parts of Ireland and France. This is a range of around 150 Nautical Miles and peaks at around 200NM in places. Previously I was struggling to get much above 75NM. Since the core chipset is the same, this is most likely down to the better built-in filters and amplifiers.
I am very happy with the dongle and would recommend this to anyone looking to either start ADSB feeding or replace aging kit. For new starters, go for the kit that includes the RadarBox aerial too unless you want to try your hand at building your own.
For the stick, it is not much bigger than a larger USB pen drive and has a USB plug on the one end and a SMA connector on the other for connecting to your aerial. I use a homemade co-linear aerial (there are instructions on the web but use the right cable and accurate cut elements) as when I started feeding ADSB data 9 years ago, ready-made kit was in short supply. This is then mounted above my roof line to give as clear a view of the sky as possible (although I live in a slight dip so it doesn't have quite a clear a view of the horizon as it otherwise would have).
I found the stick was a drop-in replacement for the old TV tuner-based stick I was using, and I just needed to replace the original dongle pigtail with an F-type to SMA convertor. Immediately there was a huge increase in range, and I can now cover virtually all of England & Wales (just missing the tip of Cornwall and the Scottish border area) along with parts of Ireland and France. This is a range of around 150 Nautical Miles and peaks at around 200NM in places. Previously I was struggling to get much above 75NM. Since the core chipset is the same, this is most likely down to the better built-in filters and amplifiers.
I am very happy with the dongle and would recommend this to anyone looking to either start ADSB feeding or replace aging kit. For new starters, go for the kit that includes the RadarBox aerial too unless you want to try your hand at building your own.
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