ADS-B Antenna 1090Mhz Antenna MCX Plug 2.5dbi Magnet Base ADS-B Aerial Receiver with RG174 1M &MCX Female to SMA Male Adapter 1090MHz ADS-B RTL SDR Software Defined Radio USB Stick Dongle Tuner

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I just got this antenna, tested with an analyzer then installed it, and rebooted it. I was getting between 40-50nm of flight positions, now I am getting between 80-100nm. Is that a vast improvement? Depends on how you look at it. This FlightAware server is in a building along with the antenna in a less than desirable location inside. Double the nm distance of visibility is great for me.I did test the antenna on an analyzer before I installed it on the FlightAware USB stick, and it looked slightly better than the stock antenna. I did not expect double the distance of position visibility.The magnet is weak but it does work for indoors. Just stick it on something metal and it will work fine. It didn't want to stand on a wooden desk. LOL.That said, great antenna for the small price you pay to get more positions further away.I hope this helps.

Bought this antenna to replace the original antenna that came with my ADS-B adapter. Prior to setting up this antenna, I was getting mostly 0-50 nm responses from aircraft with a few aircraft responding from 50-100 nm. With this antenna installed, I'm getting some more aircrafts responding from the 50-100 nm range. Short of getting an antenna that is installed outside, this is quite good considering the antenna is placed indoors near a window.

The magnet strength of the base is not strong at all. I was using a RTL- SDR dongle with SDR# software. With that antenna I was getting no reception so I returned the antenna.

Tested and it has a nice SWR dip at 1090MHz, which is good for ADS-B work. I like the adapter that came with it that allowed it to work with both of the types of connectors that typically come on USB SDR sticks. The magnet is adequate but not overly strong. The coax is very thin. I has a slight gain over a similar mag mount cut down to 1/4 wavelength, but it doesn't pickup quite as well as some of my other ADS-B antennas.

Magnet was not strong at all. Connectors and cable were fine with zero issues. Returned due to magnet strength.

The ASDB FlightStick is no more than an RTL-SDR in a fancy package and a higher price. It seems to be geared toward feeding data into the RadrBox.com / AirNav Radar website The only directions I could find to get things running is to connect it to a Raspberry PI and let it become a "Feeder" I reached out to their help desk a few days back that said messages would be answered in 24 hours. Still no word. The device is recognized by dump1090 though you may have to use Zadag to get it to connect. It shows up in the device mananger as Bulk input device. No software is provided with thre device and I could not find any on there website. The package lists one of the features as "Alerts, Weather, Flight and Aircraft Photos". ADSB 978 provides weather not ADSB 1090 and you have to be close to the tower or in the air to receive that

I feed a number of ADS-B monitoring sites. When I replaced the standard, short RTL-SDR antenna with this one, I was amazed to find that it was capturing signals from almost twice as many aircraft, including some just inside the 200 NM ring. And my antenna location is less than optimum - it is sitting on a window sill indoors.This was surprising because this antenna is considerably longer than the original, and some suggest that the length of the original antenna should actually be shortened for optimum frequency response. It could be that this longer antenna presents more cross-sectional area to capture 1090 MHz signals. Regardless of the theory behind it, this antenna “just works good” for ADS-B.To be honest, I bought this antenna to experiment with, thinking I would have an extra base and connector. After installing it, I see no need for further experimentation.