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geek3001

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#303904 19-Mar-2023 11:25

A long time lurker, having learnt a lot from GZ, have decided I'm well overdue to support the site, so have 'put several coins in the meter' as it were, to help acknowledge the benefit of GZ.

Perhaps I will see questions I can help with :-)

On the home front, recently completed a migration from the Windows world to Linux, in search of a more stable experience and frankly, to have a computer that does not blow so much CPU-heated air out the back when it's sitting idle doing very little!

While not dealing with IT stuff I keep an eye on aircraft flying here and there using ADS-B while happily running an instance of a legacy Windows program using Wine on the Linux. I consider that a good achievement as I suspect the creators of that now EOL product might not have ever considered it running on Linux!

Am mildly dyslexic so apologies in advance if my posts don't always read correctly, despite me re-reading things many, many times before posting :-)

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#3051797 19-Mar-2023 11:25

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#3051802 19-Mar-2023 11:35

Welcome :)

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#3051804 19-Mar-2023 11:40

Welcome! I’m personally running PiAware here collecting data for both FlightAware and FlightRadar24 - it gives you a free business subscription to both apps if you do this 😊

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#3051806 19-Mar-2023 11:48

I have been a happy paying user of FlightRadar24 (FR24) for almost as long as it has been available. I did offer to be a data feeder to them, however when I last checked with them, I have patchy coverage and don't have enough RF visibility to the horizon. FR24 often fills in the gaps where my own receiver can't receive from the aircraft. Such is life :-)

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#3051825 19-Mar-2023 12:28

Welcome

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#3051831 19-Mar-2023 13:17

@geek3001 These days you can fire up your own and just share to them - they'll automatically grant you a business account in return: https://www.flightradar24.com/share-your-data :)

I'm just sharing from a small antenna on top of my server cabinet so nothing special.

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#3051834 19-Mar-2023 13:36

Interesting, I shall have a look into that, thanks :-)

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#3051835 19-Mar-2023 13:41

Welcome and enjoy the huge amounts and variety of shared knowledge this forum provides.

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#3053003 21-Mar-2023 17:49

Welcome aboard. You already know how great this space is so thanks for joining up.

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#3053008 21-Mar-2023 18:10

Welcome.

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#3053016 21-Mar-2023 18:29

Welcome!

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#3053050 21-Mar-2023 20:39

Hooray for joining. Hope yo enjoy your stay. 😄🙃😄

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#3053054 21-Mar-2023 21:09

michaelmurfy:

@geek3001 These days you can fire up your own and just share to them - they'll automatically grant you a business account in return: https://www.flightradar24.com/share-your-data :)

I'm just sharing from a small antenna on top of my server cabinet so nothing special.

I am keen to get this going - is there any specific DVB-T stick I need?

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#3053055 21-Mar-2023 21:09

Welcome to GZ where you can loose plenty of time :)

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#3055817 28-Mar-2023 14:04

Welcome to the madhouse

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