Acars setup

I recently set up an ACARS feed setup, this setup feeds Airframes.io with acars data from in and around the vicinity of EIDW (Dublin airport). For my antenna I am using the telescopic antenna that came with my Nooelec SMARTEE v2 sdr kit that I originally used for my 1090mhz ADS-B setup. For the SDR I used my spare FlightAware orange sdr, I removed the plastic from this so it can handle its thermals better. The nooelec antenna has a dodgy SMA connector after the few years I have used and abused it, I just have the coax pushed into my SDR with the outer conductor of my coax touching the outer of my sma connector (Photo attatched below)

The antenna is mounted outside vertically.

For software I used ACARSDEC with the , you can see my feed at This Link and you can find out about the amazing airframes.io project in the official DISCORD

 

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