Getting some good data from my really crappy antenna. Three days of operation and I have 62 contacts from more than 250 miles away and 863 from 200-250 miles. Pales in comparison to the 57,755 contacts from overhead to 50 miles but still, it's working.
First up will be to get the other script running and then build a better antenna and mount it on the roof. The receiver is very small and talks to the computer through a USB cable. Going to try an active cable to see if I can mount the receiver directly connected to the antenna in a weatherproof box. Cut down on signal loss.
Always stuff to experiment with.
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