AirNav Radar ADS-B 1090 MHz Outdoor Antenna with SMA Connector

Ok, so I haven’t had a chance to use this much, or even in a proper way yet, but I’m getting very good reception with it. I have used it indoors just laying on the table and it picked up most of the planes in the Las Vegas area. I’m using it with SDRuno. And a SDRplay receiver.

Easy to install.30' cable length was long enough for my purpose.I used an old Dish antenna mount to attach it to.The tubing diameter was a bit large for the u-bolt provided.The diameter of the antenna is about 7/8". U-bolt provided is closer to 1-1/4"I had to squeeze the tubing about an 1/8" and it worked fine,

Purchased this to upgrade from a smaller magnetic antenna, I kept looking for reviews showing what kind of change to expect. See my screenshot, using this this indoors (garage), it’s connected to a RPI with a band pass filter, I went from getting almost no positions beyond 50 miles. In my screenshot graph, I’m now getting almost twice the positions greater than 50 miles away than ALL the positions under 50 miles away.This came with hardware to mount to a pole, I mounted it to a tall storage rack in the garage. Which worked great with the long cable it comes with to keep the RPI within easy each of an electrical outlet and arms reach now.Using this to feed FlightAware, RadarBox24 and ADSBExchange from a single Raspberry Pi 3, using the USB FlightAware Pro Stick and the ADS-B Band-Pass SMA filter.

I have 7 flightaware antennas and they works ver well. I bought one AirNav Antenna and after one month I saw same performance that flightaware antenna, with difference that cable length is 10 m (my flightaware system has 4,5 m length), then I can put my decoder and rpi inside my house, and is cheaper than flightaware system (AirNav antenna with cable $50; flightaware antenna and LR400 cable I spent $75)... I recommend this antenna!

It's not the most expensive antenna available on the market (you can go wild spending A LOT of money to improve reception). But it was the money well spent. I used a small magnetic antenna and decided to give the new antenna a shot. The difference is huge! I believe the cable is high quality as the reception is strong and losses are low.Can't compare with similar antennas but it's a huge win over small magnetic brothers!

Maybe I got a defective unit. I replaced a basic stubby antenna that was pulling in signals from 30-45 miles away but I thought I could up my game by getting a dedicated outdoor unit.I placed this outside just above the roof line, same spot (actually a little higher thanks to the longer cable) as the old one and fired up my dump1090. Well, it was only able to pick up some signals from about 5 miles. What? I hooked up the old antenna cable, inside now, and watched the # of tracked planes jump up immediately... and this stubby was now inside my metal roofed structure.Well crumb - I hooked this antenna up to my HackRF and used SDR# to view 1090MHz and it's just super weak - just a terrible signal coming in compared to what I see on the waterfall with even a cheap adjustable length antenna.I'll be returning this and probably going for the FA model. I was hoping this would be good enough and I liked that it came with the cable, but in hindsight that might actually be it's downfall - the permanently attached antenna may be at fault, and/or it's just too long so that it's attenuating so much that it loses whatever gain the antenna was adding. With the FA model, sure, the cable is a separate purchase, but you can get the length you need and get a high quality one if needed. Instead of 25' of whatever this cable is, I probably only need about 15' and I may as well just get LMR-400 for the low loss.

The antenna works well enough, but it's got a 32-foot cable with an SMA connector at one end and bonded directly to the antenna at the other end. While fewer connectors does reduce loss, it means that if your cable breaks (as mine did) you're out the whole device or left to try and repair the cable instead of replacing it.

I installed it up 30' and it worked great. then one day a month after the return window it just stopped working. Nothing has changed with install or the PC. Went from reporting over 300 flights a day to 0 overnight.