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#262270 13-Jan-2020 21:12
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FlightAware Pro Stick Plus - High Performance USB SDR ADS-B Receiver. Use with Flight Aware to track aircraft.

 

Google PiAware for an easy to build Pi based tracker. Feed in to a global tracking system.

 

I have 5 of these. Brand new and unused. Will throw in an indoor aerial as well.  $20 each with free shipping (Rural extra).

 

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  #2391387 13-Jan-2020 21:27
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PM'd for one.





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  #2391388 13-Jan-2020 21:33
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Do you have antennas and stuff too or just the USB stick?

 

 





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  #2391399 13-Jan-2020 22:04
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  #2391425 13-Jan-2020 22:46
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  #2391428 13-Jan-2020 23:12
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  #2392234 14-Jan-2020 22:37
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For anyone using these, have you found that the SDRs lock up from time to time, requiring them to be unplugged and re-plugged, followed restarting the Pi they're connected to? Seems to be heat-related, ever since I put a honkin' great heatsink sandwich around them the lockups have gotten less, but it still happens from time to time.

 
 
 

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  #2392243 14-Jan-2020 23:02
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neb: For anyone using these, have you found that the SDRs lock up from time to time, requiring them to be unplugged and re-plugged, followed restarting the Pi they're connected to? Seems to be heat-related, ever since I put a honkin' great heatsink sandwich around them the lockups have gotten less, but it still happens from time to time.

 

It's heat or the interface chipset wedging and going offline. 

 

The biggest cause is often power supplies. The FA plugs are hungrier than you expect. Got to go down a good 2A supply route. And if you have it on anything more than about a 10cm Extension tail, they'll drop further. Powered hubs work wonders to fix.


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  #2392246 14-Jan-2020 23:07
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Oblivian:

It's heat or the interface chipset wedging and going offline. 

 

The biggest cause is often power supplies. The FA plugs are hungrier than you expect. Got to go down a good 2A supply route. And if you have it on anything more than about a 10cm Extension tail, they'll drop further. Powered hubs work wonders to fix.

 

 

Yeah, I'm running it off a powered hub, not a hope of running it directly off a Pi. In my case it seems to correspond to hot days, so I was assuming it was heat based, but I'm in the process of moving to a better power supply (multi-port USB brick rather than a UBEC) so that may help too.

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