ADS-B Equipped Solo now detects surrounding aircraft!

[Steve S.]

Here's the FAA's synopsis. P2P's explanation is more understandable.

 

[Pedals2Paddles]

I moved it down to the ass bay so it's much cleaner now.

 

[David Boulanger]

I wonder if there will be any loss of receiving ability with the antennas horizontal as compared to vertical. In a sUAS application regarding a Solo I don't think it would really matter. Sure cleans things up.

 

[Pedals2Paddles]

Ya thought about that and decided it would be a non-issue. The 30% cross-polarization loss will not be effect anything meaningful for the application. I was detecting aircraft 30-50 miles away before. If the range is reduced to 15-20 miles, no worries. I only actually NEED to detect aircraft with in like 2 miles. And I could detect them from inside my house, sideways, in the basement.

 

[Linuxcnc69]

Hey P2P, now that 4.0 will work with the black cube will it be possible to install this without needing the green cube?

 

[Pedals2Paddles]

Yes.

 

[Zzz]

This is neat, and one of the best applications of ADS-B tech I can think of at present. Cool that it works on Solo. uAvionix has continued to produce some cool products over the last two years, a few for manned aircraft.

However, remember that guys like me are flying our old airplanes at low level without even a Mode C transponder. Hope to get compliant with the 2020 mandate soon.