Hello guys, long time lurker of this thread.
I just wanted to thank you for helping me increase the coverage I get and also my knowledge.
This is my current setup:
1 Raspberry Pi 2 with a powered USB hub and 2 RTL-SDRs. One of the dongles is collecting from a dipole antenna using dump1090-mutability and feeding to FR24, FlightAware and Plane Finder. The other is using an older spider antenna I made for testing with dump1090-mutability feeding with netcat to the first one in order to combine the feeds.
Both antennas are next to each other near a windowed roof. Sadly I have been unable to find an easy way to put them outside since I have a wall that is decreasing my reception to the north.
Dipole:
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I used to have a cantenna made from a peach can which worked quite well, but I`ve moved to a new apartment and could not take it with me.
As can be seen in the following graph, on the 30th I moved to the new location and started using the spider antenna, this increased position reports from 11000 to 16000. Then on the first I built and started using the dipole antenna and a balum which increased the reports to 20000 and finally, on the 3rd of september I combined the two feeds which increased reports to 23000.
Reception:
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Max range so far has been in the order of 300km to the south, I{ve been trying to buy an amplifier but so far all the electronics stores I've been only have the TV kind.