That's cool! Do I understand it correctly that you are basically building the infrastructure the US has? You're privately recreating a government funded network? That's impressive! We are recreating the parts that we can. Some aspects of the ADS-B network in the US rely on data that the general pub...

This has evolved over the last year and a bit and is now in production. A small group of pilots have formed a not for profit and developed hardware and software along with the regulatory knowledge to build an ADS-B broadcast network. CIFIB.ca has all the details of what we are doing. The sites are a...

As has been said the satellite network does not transmit anything. Since Nav Canada and Transport Canada are not directly building a network to transmit Canadian weather a bunch of people have gotten together and are building our own network to do it. https://cifib.ca/ This not for profit has been c...

Anyone who has flown in the US lately has likely had the benefit of inflight weather data provided by a national ADS-B ground station network. Transport and Nav Canada have chosen not to build a similar network due to precieved cost. Well some enterprising individuals have taken upon themselves to d...

I thought flightaware would send you an ads-b setup, as long as you hooked it up They only send people receivers in areas that have poor coverage which is pretty rare these days. In other news Canada is getting ADS-B ground stations. uatwx.ca The plan is to form a not for profit to manage the netwo...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOev1vT5Y3o

Just a little demo of some basic functionality.

Decodes nav canada radar into nexrad format. Also does metars/tafs.

Hi Helno, I tried accessing the Google groups link but don't have access to it. How do I request access? I would not worry about it for now. There are some other parties involved now and we are going in a different (better) direction. It is still in the early testing stages but it appears that a li...

The image that I've made is one that you can write to an SD card just like Stratux and have everything set to go pretty quickly. The image is based on Stratux v1.5b2 and has the "txwx" v0.1 software on top (http://github.com/stratux/txwx). When in TX mode, it will pull METARs and TAFs from ADDS bas...

Sorry for the super late reply. To host a site you would need two devices. One to transmit and one to receive. Both use mostly the same hardware but the TX doesn't need any of the extra hardware such as the GPS, or 1090 radio. What the transmitter does need is some power to have any useful range, a ...

I just logged it as PIC time. In order to fly it you need a license that allows for it and I was using my existing PPL to meet that.

The type of aircraft is written in my log books and the hours can easily be determined if there is any question about it.

I use a sensorcon.

If you do a bit of searching they usually have a discount code for pilots buying them.

A bit of progress on this this weekend.

There will likely be a test site setup at the Stratford airport.

Some people there have even gotten permission to broadcast UAT on 978 MHz so when this goes live anyone with ADS-B IN should be able to pick it up at very close range.

I had a Bose X refurbished at Brant Aero about a year ago.

They told me that they still have parts but once they are gone that is it.

I wonder if by the time it's mandated in Canada, someone might make some kind of ADS-B repeater for a top antenna installation that would just retransmit the signal from the bottom antenna... might make an upgrade path a lot more feasible for people who already have a bottom-mounted ADS-B transpond...

I have a GTX-335. I guess if I really have to I can upgrade to a 335d but it will be a real kick in the teeth. I installed it before all this talk of diversity.

What I really wonder is what will happen to all the US aircraft coming north.

Larger aircraft like that would already have diversity transponders for TCAS.

I wonder what suite of avionics they have otherwise? Might be pretty limited as far as IFR nav goes and that might be a bigger issue than ADS-B compliance.

I fly through there on route from Oshkosh.

Would be nice to have someone there if something went wrong but the lack thereof does not stop me from using the airport.

It is mostly on hold for now. I still have my test site running but I haven't been logging the flights for a while. There were some issues with the 1 watt radios and the main developer does not have much time to work on them. The google group is private so I can approve you later this evening. If yo...

The only non-greenhouse-gas-emitting energy source with the energy density necessary to replace fossil fuels is nuclear. Ironically the biggest enemy of Nuclear power is the cost of getting started. Ontario has a lot of Nuclear power and as a result was able to shutdown coal fired generation. We ha...

Biofuels are carbon neutral even though they involve combustion because the growing feedstock consumes CO2. Burning wood is an inefficient way to produce heat but it is carbon neutral with properly managed forests. It is only considered a waste because there are cheaper fuels available. That will no...