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Re:Traceroute from a Norwegian Airlines airplane by toomuchtodo on Tuesday April 23, 2013 @11:38AM (#5595786)
Tracking aircraft is not practical unless you're going to use a phased array, and the problem you'll run into then is how large the cells are when you're pointing towards the sky, reducing spectrum separation.
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Re:Traceroute from a Norwegian Airlines airplane by mseebach on Tuesday April 23, 2013 @11:58AM (#5595934)
Why is tracking aircraft impractical? In university I was involved in building an antenna that would track a LEO satellite (a bit crudely, though), with a pass taking about 15 minutes - that's pretty similar to a pass by a full-altitude aircraft. The main impracticality I can see is that you'll need an antenna pr. aircraft in range.
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Re:Traceroute from a Norwegian Airlines airplane by hga on Tuesday April 23, 2013 @12:32PM (#5596141)
If you want to track a number of aircraft, and not require an antenna/dish per each or have resultant mechanical breakdowns, phased array antennas are the best solution.
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Re:Traceroute from a Norwegian Airlines airplane by toomuchtodo on Tuesday April 23, 2013 @01:03PM (#5596368)
Thanks for responding.
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