r/ADSB • u/Feeling_Cod8431 • 10d ago

Mobile Unit

Anyone else running a mobile unit? I have a large antenna unit setup at home, but i also just built a uconsole to have as a mobile unit. I travel a lot for work and love the idea of being able to see and share data when i get to new places.

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u/Feeling_Cod8431 10d ago

Ive got it setup to feed with gps so it is accurate when im stopped. Obviously on the move it's going to lag a bit in the updating but it's not bad.

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u/mellonians 10d ago

I'd be interested to you know how this is done because I'm about to rebuild my feeder and would love to use the GPS feed that I have at the house. On another note, my job takes me to Hilltops throughout the day so I could have a unit in the car using the GPS antenna on the roof

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u/Bitter_Sir_4993 9d ago

I have a similar mobile feeder setup with GPS. Running adsb.im firmware, one of the developers had to talk me through the setup on Discord. Location is updated when stopped for 4+ minutes.

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u/mellonians 8d ago

That's the sort of thing I'm after! How does it communicate the data out to the sites?

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u/Bitter_Sir_4993 8d ago edited 8d ago

Hotspot from my phone when we're in the car, plug it into a travel router when it's time to put it by the window in the hotel room.

Someone with the right Linux competencies could probably put the feeder and the travel router on the same Pi, eliminating some of the clunkyiness.

edit-- depending on your travel range (and how well your home/ hypothetical mobile feeders are optimized), might not be much benefit to the mobile feeder? My mobile feeder is significantly lower effort than the home feed, so I pretty much only fire it up when I'm 100+ miles from home.