Hi guys,
Great Forum, thanks for the help so far!
Briefly introducing myself, aviation enthusiast feeding from close to HSSJ airport. I'm currently 1 of the 2 feeders in this city with more than 1 million people.
Hopefully someone with a bit of knowledge can help me out here.
I've got a RPI zero W feeding to FR24 with a black dongle and small antenna. (see pic 1)
I also purchased an outdoor antenna (see pic 2) which is installed on my roof.
If I connect my outdoor antenna with a cable connector to my black dongle (see pic 3) it doesn't pick up any aircraft. FR24 says everything is connected and all systems are up and running if I run:
Or if I check
Of course you'll say that there is probably a problem with my cable to the antenna or the antenna itself. The strange thing is that when I put the dongle in my laptop and run some other software to listen to FM radio, the dongle and outdoor antenna work fine...
So I'm quite confused.
I've also bought a silver dongle (I initially thought it was the dongle which was faulty) (see pic 4) to see if that helps, but the results are exactly the same.
I've got 3 question to get further.
- Does anyone have a good tip on how to test my outdoor antenna and dongle on a Windows or Mac laptop to make sure the antenna and cable to the antenna are fine.
- Are there any known issues with power supply to the dongle with the RPI zero W when connected to a larger antenna?
- Do I need to install the drivers for the silver dongle according to the website rtl-sdr. com / rtl-sdr-quick-start-guide (sorry I can't post links in my first posts on this forum) or do the standard drivers from the FR24 image work with the silver dongle work out of the box?
Any help is appreciated!
Thanks!
Great Forum, thanks for the help so far!
Briefly introducing myself, aviation enthusiast feeding from close to HSSJ airport. I'm currently 1 of the 2 feeders in this city with more than 1 million people.
Hopefully someone with a bit of knowledge can help me out here.
I've got a RPI zero W feeding to FR24 with a black dongle and small antenna. (see pic 1)
I also purchased an outdoor antenna (see pic 2) which is installed on my roof.
If I connect my outdoor antenna with a cable connector to my black dongle (see pic 3) it doesn't pick up any aircraft. FR24 says everything is connected and all systems are up and running if I run:
Code:
fr24feed-status
Code:
IP:8754
So I'm quite confused.
I've also bought a silver dongle (I initially thought it was the dongle which was faulty) (see pic 4) to see if that helps, but the results are exactly the same.
I've got 3 question to get further.
- Does anyone have a good tip on how to test my outdoor antenna and dongle on a Windows or Mac laptop to make sure the antenna and cable to the antenna are fine.
- Are there any known issues with power supply to the dongle with the RPI zero W when connected to a larger antenna?
- Do I need to install the drivers for the silver dongle according to the website rtl-sdr. com / rtl-sdr-quick-start-guide (sorry I can't post links in my first posts on this forum) or do the standard drivers from the FR24 image work with the silver dongle work out of the box?
Any help is appreciated!
Thanks!
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