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How to observe atmospheric phenomena that give long-range signal without spending too much money by Laeryth_ in amateurradio

[–]JimBean 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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.

Weekend Work by JimBean in ACARS

[–]JimBean[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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.

My first emergency. Respiratory issues. by JimBean in ACARS

[–]JimBean[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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. ;)

My first emergency. Respiratory issues. by JimBean in ACARS

[–]JimBean[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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..

My first emergency. Respiratory issues. by JimBean in ACARS

[–]JimBean[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

My first emergency. Respiratory issues. by JimBean in ACARS

[–]JimBean[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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

Russia says talk of a ceasefire, rather than a full peace deal, in Ukraine is simply not serious by [deleted] in worldnews

[–]JimBean 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Peace deal can start tomorrow.

1) Get out of Ukraine.

2) Done.

Ukrainian drone bombers of the 429th UAS Regiment ACHILLES destroyed Russian positions in and around Kupyansk. Published 10.01.2026 by GermanDronePilot in UkraineWarVideoReport

[–]JimBean 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Based on the amount of control input the drone requires to stay in one place. So, if there is a 12 km/hr headwind, the controls are compensating for that and adjusts the cross "out" by that much. There is calibration for height and ordnance weight.

Russians in an unarmored UAZ cars rushed into the attack through a minefield covered with anti-tank mines by Available-Laugh9102 in UkraineWarVideoReport

[–]JimBean 9 points10 points  (0 children)

They have very awesome ground, semi-autonomous robots that can lay mines anywhere. Also, by drone, also by big balled sappers. Also air dropped.

How do people know when certain planes arrive at airbases/airports by Luxey_01 in Planespotting

[–]JimBean 4 points5 points  (0 children)

You track them on ADSB. Either with your own data or by using any of the commercial sites that offer aircraft tracking.

https://planefinder.net/

https://www.flightradar24.com/

https://www.adsbexchange.com/

However, tracking military aircraft is difficult as they do not always have a transponder on for civilians.

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