Went and bit the bullet and ordered an FA antenna and set it up last weekend replacing the old 8-element CoCo;
Antenna.png
It's now running 'naked' (ie no amp which was in that piece of pipe you can see on the fence) into a FA Prostick+. I'm now getting regular hits 200Nm+ and yesterday set a new bench-mark of 224Nm to the NE out over the Coral Sea.
The mast consists of a 1.8m J-bracket (designed for mounting TV antennas) sitting 1.7m above the ground to which I've added an old pool cleaner pole which adds another 3.8m on with the antenna clearing the house roof-line.
During the week I ran the 'do I need a filter' test and there's large spikes from the not-too-far distance GSM tower (about 1km away slightly to the right of that tree)
1090Mhz waterfall and spectrum.jpg
so I've ordered a filter from Hungary via eBay and it should be here in a week or so.
https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/ADSB-Fil...53.m1438.l2649
I'll test it locating it up top of the antenna and also just before the Prostick to see if there's any discernible difference.
Antenna.png
It's now running 'naked' (ie no amp which was in that piece of pipe you can see on the fence) into a FA Prostick+. I'm now getting regular hits 200Nm+ and yesterday set a new bench-mark of 224Nm to the NE out over the Coral Sea.
The mast consists of a 1.8m J-bracket (designed for mounting TV antennas) sitting 1.7m above the ground to which I've added an old pool cleaner pole which adds another 3.8m on with the antenna clearing the house roof-line.
During the week I ran the 'do I need a filter' test and there's large spikes from the not-too-far distance GSM tower (about 1km away slightly to the right of that tree)
1090Mhz waterfall and spectrum.jpg
so I've ordered a filter from Hungary via eBay and it should be here in a week or so.
https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/ADSB-Fil...53.m1438.l2649
I'll test it locating it up top of the antenna and also just before the Prostick to see if there's any discernible difference.
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