KB7ST wrote:
Nick -- have you tried 'whatever it takes' (some program whose name I've forgotten) that allows one to pick up whatever mode military jets transmit so they can be 'seen' in flight? I know there's a whole interest group about that on the Net but forget what it's called. I'm curious because of the C-17 and P3 flights that come into Grant County airport in Moses Lake. Plus I see A-6s from time to time. When the A6s want low-level VFR flights, they do a comm check in to Seattle at 255.40. "seattle center, he's apache-2, a flight of two a6s, entering VR-123 at point bravo at 1823Z at 425 knots, exiting at point papa at 1932Z, over"
Nothing like camping at say, Chiwawa River valley north of Lake Wenatchee, and have a flight of A-6s barreling down the valley at perhaps 200 feet AGL.
Yes, that's what this thread is about. :)
With the appropriate pieces you can set up your own ADS-S monitoring station (manually operated) or buy a Raspberry Pi 3 and use Flightaware to monitor your air traffic in a fully automated operation. FA filters out the military traffic but your *local* station can receive anything/everything that is using ADS-B.
So I see the P3C's out of Whidbey NAS and plenty of C17s and C-130s out of McChord.