Hi, to all after I've seen with RTL ADSB and DUMP1090 how ADS-B transponder data 1090MHz (pulse modulation) is decoded I would like to start with FLARM (Europe 868.2 and 868.4MHz frequency modulated). The position data of gliders (ID, latitude, longitude and altitude) are sent 1xsec in the form of NMEA-like records. I work with the BeagleBone black and have a FLARM transmitter installed near the RTL-Dongle/Antenne and may at any time start recording I/Qsamples with RTL_SDR. Thanks Fritz
This is a new one! Thanks for bringing it to my attention. Looks like a voluntary, GPS-based (i.e., not secondary surveillance) system. While the serial protocol appears to be NMEA-like, the protocol "under the hood" at the PHY layer could be basically anything, and the FLARM consortium appears to have elected to keep specs hidden. Reading the dataport specification gives few insights as to the PHY layer, but at least it's good to know the protocol has "future-proof" support for all aircraft types.
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If you record good FLARM transmissions I am happy to assist in decoding what I can, not least because proprietary protocols were meant to be open. =)
--n
On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 7:58 AM, Fritz Meier fritz.meier@myway.de wrote:
Hi, to all after I've seen with RTL ADSB and DUMP1090 how ADS-B transponder data 1090MHz (pulse modulation) is decoded I would like to start with FLARM (Europe 868.2 and 868.4MHz frequency modulated). The position data of gliders (ID, latitude, longitude and altitude) are sent 1xsec in the form of NMEA-like records. I work with the BeagleBone black and have a FLARM transmitter installed near the RTL-Dongle/Antenne and may at any time start recording I/Qsamples with RTL_SDR. Thanks Fritz
OK, turns out someone beat us to it a while ago, even going so far as to reverse-engineer the cheesy crypto FLARM put in there to discourage copycats. The PHY is a Nordic nRF905 (+10dBm output), the medium access control is blind random-interval squitter with no two-way communication, and all Onera's vaunted "prediction" logic is being done in an AVR (!). Kids these days...
The good news is Manchester-encoded GFSK is dead simple to decode, and the known parameters of the nRF905 make it easy to write a receiver.
--n
On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 8:14 AM, Nick Foster bistromath@gmail.com wrote:
This is a new one! Thanks for bringing it to my attention. Looks like a voluntary, GPS-based (i.e., not secondary surveillance) system. While the serial protocol appears to be NMEA-like, the protocol "under the hood" at the PHY layer could be basically anything, and the FLARM consortium appears to have elected to keep specs hidden. Reading the dataport specification gives few insights as to the PHY layer, but at least it's good to know the protocol has "future-proof" support for all aircraft types.
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If you record good FLARM transmissions I am happy to assist in decoding what I can, not least because proprietary protocols were meant to be open. =)
--n
On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 7:58 AM, Fritz Meier fritz.meier@myway.de wrote:
Hi, to all after I've seen with RTL ADSB and DUMP1090 how ADS-B transponder data 1090MHz (pulse modulation) is decoded I would like to start with FLARM (Europe 868.2 and 868.4MHz frequency modulated). The position data of gliders (ID, latitude, longitude and altitude) are sent 1xsec in the form of NMEA-like records. I work with the BeagleBone black and have a FLARM transmitter installed near the RTL-Dongle/Antenne and may at any time start recording I/Qsamples with RTL_SDR. Thanks Fritz
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