ADSB Diversity Weather in Canada?
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Dronepiper
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ADSB Diversity Weather in Canada?
Does Nav Canada broadcast adsb wx through its satellites? Can I pick it up if I have diversity? (With In/out)
Re: ADSB Diversity Weather in Canada?
I think the weather is only on the UAT band, which is US ground based only.
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Re: ADSB Diversity Weather in Canada?
for $200/quarter you can get sat wx on your garmin --
one just needs to look at the nav canada wx site and see how outdated that is so sat wx would it ever happen in the next 50 years.
one just needs to look at the nav canada wx site and see how outdated that is so sat wx would it ever happen in the next 50 years.
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Re: ADSB Diversity Weather in Canada?
The Aireon satellites are one-way. They receive broadcasts from your diversity antennas, but they do not broadcast anything back that you can use on board your airplane. The system was not designed with the bandwidth necessary for weather, NOTAM's, traffic, etc.
Re: ADSB Diversity Weather in Canada?
No but you can with an XM subscription.
Re: ADSB Diversity Weather in Canada?
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 created to build an ADS-B ground station network broadcasting Canadian weather to anyone with an ADS-B receiver that can pick up 978mhz/UAT. The group comes from a wide variety of backgrounds and have had a test site operating in Burlington for the last year. That test site was shut down to allow for a change over from experimental hardware to standardized production hardware.
We are building this network by finding groups interested in funding sites. So far we have several and will have the beginnings of a network up and running as soon as the various COVID restrictions allow us to get hardware installed on towers.
The protocol for UAT is public and open and we are following it so that any hardware that works in the US will work here. We have to work within the data types available but we can encode data from many different sources and are going to do this to include types of traffic that would not normally be seen on the US system (FLARM and NEMOscout.)
There will be an article published about this system in this months COPA flight.
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 created to build an ADS-B ground station network broadcasting Canadian weather to anyone with an ADS-B receiver that can pick up 978mhz/UAT. The group comes from a wide variety of backgrounds and have had a test site operating in Burlington for the last year. That test site was shut down to allow for a change over from experimental hardware to standardized production hardware.
We are building this network by finding groups interested in funding sites. So far we have several and will have the beginnings of a network up and running as soon as the various COVID restrictions allow us to get hardware installed on towers.
The protocol for UAT is public and open and we are following it so that any hardware that works in the US will work here. We have to work within the data types available but we can encode data from many different sources and are going to do this to include types of traffic that would not normally be seen on the US system (FLARM and NEMOscout.)
There will be an article published about this system in this months COPA flight.
