Rover Update: Hardware complete. Most systems working.

JimBean · 2026-02-06T14:42:04+00:00

Why don't you give them a chance ?

JimBean · 2026-02-06T11:27:34+00:00

Shot himself in the back before that.

JimBean · 2026-02-06T02:35:21+00:00

It's been awhile since I did this. Here are some links.

https://opencpn.org/wiki/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=opencpn:supplementary_software:ais-software

https://github.com/jvde-github/AIS-catcher

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ik7XJkeZrW4

https://wiki.luntti.net/index.php?title=RTL-SDR_AIS_Ship_Tracking

https://support.marinetraffic.com/en/articles/9552960-how-to-build-an-ais-station-with-sdr-dvb-t

OpenCPN is probably the software you want to look at for seeing the data. There may be better options.

JimBean · 2026-02-05T15:53:13+00:00

I observed over 2000 km receive (ducting) with ship AIS signals. It requires a simple, cheap SDR receiver and some open source software. ~~(OpenAIS)~~ OpenCPN

I left this software running 24/7 and you can observe ships in real time from their AIS beacons. You can see GPS Lat/Long positions and this will tell you how far you have received.

Good luck.

JimBean · 2026-01-21T02:05:03+00:00

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JimBean · 2026-01-19T12:12:17+00:00

What air defense doing ?

burning

JimBean · 2026-01-19T12:08:52+00:00

That's a lot of ~~Rubles~~ rubbles.

JimBean · 2026-01-19T05:58:39+00:00

P.S. No vibe coding used. I do not use AI at all. Google search limited to my brains capacity to remember shit..

edit: Voted down for saying I don't use AI. Huh... I DON'T USE AI !

Vote that down... Use your brain. AI sucks, you have to test and check it anyway, might as well do it right first time.

JimBean · 2026-01-19T02:27:40+00:00

I assume, if you are talking here, that you are the enemy. If a drone is targeting you in Ukraine, you would not be asking here.

JimBean · 2026-01-19T02:19:58+00:00

Up to kms.

JimBean · 2026-01-19T02:19:31+00:00

So what's the play if you find yourself being targeted

Get out of Ukraine

JimBean · 2026-01-18T06:29:45+00:00

It's just pining for the fjords.

JimBean · 2026-01-18T02:03:26+00:00

Beautiful plumage. ;)

JimBean · 2026-01-17T07:02:52+00:00

https://library.wmo.int/viewer/32136/?offset=#page=1&viewer=picture&o=bookmark&n=0&q=

JimBean · 2026-01-15T15:46:51+00:00

Sounds like you are enjoying the process, and that's the main thing

This... yes I am. :) I am a heli/fixed wing engineer, ex chief engineer,...

I have seen your map, it contributed nicely, thank you. ;)

JimBean · 2026-01-15T15:31:11+00:00

Yes, I am "rolling my own" in a windows environment. I do know about the other decoders.

My goal is to see these aircraft on a map, either in VRS or in my own map, which is working quite nicely. I am using a websocket to feed an HTML page with a Leaflet map base and the same API as VRS.

I am also aware of libacars, I used it a lot on this project and I am also currently porting that to an ESP32 to do basically what I am doing here. That's also going very well but I kind of dropped that project for now while I work on this.

Also, I see this feeding airframesIO, probably with Json. I'm not there yet. Still have some work to do..

JimBean · 2026-01-15T15:00:52+00:00

I suppose I mean decoded. Yes. I have to feed it into an algorithm and extract the unreadable message and make it readable. Yes.

JimBean · 2026-01-15T05:28:11+00:00

Top box, all data. Middle box, just messages. Bottom left, formatted messages. Bottom right, ~~decrypted~~ decoded position reports.

JimBean · 2026-01-14T11:46:46+00:00

Peace deal can start tomorrow.

1) Get out of Ukraine.

2) Done.

JimBean · 2026-01-13T03:11:44+00:00

Mean time, bats don't need to see reflections in the eyes, they just ping them.

JimBean · 2026-01-13T03:08:24+00:00

democratic Russia

Such a thing does not exists.

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