got a Kingdian S500 in my thinkpad, no issues so far

yeah @transience , they produce modules, so kingdian just rebrands them

hmm well as long as it doesn't break in the first year it's good enough for me

Just keep a backup somewhere

Three year warrannty 🤔

should do back ups anyways if you have any worth while data

samsung pro ssd might break just like chink one

cant predict that

The Samsung Evo 250GB is only £15 more and has a 5 year warranty <:thonk:288060975775612929>

not here

I'm referring to eBay prices for new

gonna check if warranty's still honoured if I don't buy from big retailer

@transience the electronics are a lot more expensive over here for variety of reasons

and no one ships them from ebay, even if the do the toll workers will tax the fuck out of you

well, I'm talkingabout estland, not sure about finland

finished setting up my aircraft tracker using the sdr I got off ali and an rpi

just ordered a second sdr and better antennae, hoping to use an opi too

holy shit

Which pi do you have?

rpi3

I bought chink sdr dongle too, hoping I can use it with my first gen pi

I've tried it on the opi zero but I got usb issues so I tried out the rpi image instead

@transience which chipset?

I'm running off RTL2838

How did you go about placing the antenna?

RTL2832U+R820T2

or so the chink says

the black dongle that says dvb+t, right?

yup

wait, no, the blue one

yeah that's actually an rtl2838

probably same shit

the blue one is meant to have R820T2 whereas the black one is R820T or something

supposedly better

right now I have the antenna dangling outside my window which gives me a pretty decent 100km ~120° range southwards

how's the reception if you just place it inside next to the window?

already got my free flightradar24 business account 😄

nice

pretty shit, I barely got 5 nautical miles or so

so the quantity of data you upload doesn't really matter?

don't really know too much details, they turned it on after the tracker was on for an hour or three