Build 100 - 17/03/2013

- HTTP server established - see http://rtl1090.jetvision.de - Manual

section 5 for details
- double dialog on exit debugged
- Sisex: folder selection dialog debugged

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Build 95 - 24/02/2013

- Reprogramming of serial number in RTL2832U EEPROM added

- Starting dongle with specific serial number option added
(Command line switch "/ser=xxx", where xxx is "0" to "999" (no left padding zeros))
- Output format Beast ASCII added (command line switch "/ascii")

Introduction to serial number selective operations (R820T dongles only)

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This chapter is only interesting to those users that operate more than one dongle
intheir installation AND want to assign specific RTL1090 instances to a specific
dongle
and/or a specific TCP port. If you operate one dongle only, this chapter does not
contain any additonal information.

1) (Re-)Programming a serial number

R820T dongles come with a serial number "13" usually

- I strongly recommend not to alter the serial number of the first dongle you
operate. Leave it at "13"

- For any other dongles that you want to operate select a serial number of your
choice between 0 and 999

- It is strongly recommended to note the serial number on the dongle, e.g. with
a sticker

- To reprogram a serial number disconnect all RTL2832U devices from your computer.
Then reconnect the dongle that you want to program.

- Close all open instances of RTL1090, then restart RTL1090 with command line
option "/eeprom". All other options can remain in your command line, but will be
ignored during
programming operations

- START RTL1090 as usual

- From the dialog change the serial number to your desired value.

- Acknowledge disclaimers or abort as desired

- Once reprogramming is completed or aborted, close RTL1090. Remove the "/eeprom"

option from
the command line

2) Operating with select serial numbered devices

Create icons for your dongles that you want to run with RTL1090 simultaneously.
Setup
the start-up data for each icon individually, so that the icons will start their
individual
RTL1090 instance

Enter the serial number into your command line after the switch "/ser=". E.g. a
dongle with
serial number 14 would get a "/ser=14" entry.

For the typical R820T dongle (the one you have not touched) the command line entry
would be "/ser=13"

If you want to assign a specific TCP root port to a specific RTL1090 use the
"/portbase=" option

Samples:

First dongle command line: "C:\dongle\rtl1090.exe /ser=13 (more options...)"

Second dongle command line: "C:\dongle\rtl1090.exe /ser=14 (more options...)"

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Build 90 - 03/02/2013

- Mode A/C decoder much improved. List of used A/C codes added (LIST=on, if Mode
A/C selected)

- exit dialog command line option "/exitdialog" added (for STOP button only)

- Changes to SISEX:
IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN SISEX please refer to the sisex page on
http://rtl1090.jetvision.de
There will be a complete documentation available later that incorporates the
changes. For now only the following info is available
. SISEX: y/t diagram added at the bottom of page; The amplitudes of line data of
the red and white mark, that can be set with the mouse, will be shown in the y/t
diagram
Times in y/t diagram can be measured in ms with a RIGHT or LEFT MOUSE click into
the diagram.
A manual Mode A/C decoder is implemented in the y/t diagram: When making a LEFT
MOUSE
CLICK the app tries to decode a Mode A/C code and displays it at the right bottom.
. SISEX: folder can be created from folder selection window (right click on OPEN
button)

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Build 84 - 27/01/2013

- Port 30003 mapping error by command line switch corrected

- Flight table overflow problem cured

- Flight table layout changes

. Colors revised as follows:
- BROWN = descending
- CYAN = climbing
- WHITE ON RED - emergency
- RED - tcas alert pending
- PINK - intent change (altitude reset or vhf radio freq changed or
autopilot mode changed) (only over ICAO column)
- YELLOW = spi (only over SSR column) (transponder ident)
- ORANGE = alert (only over SSR column) (Mode A code changed)

- Flight table update pausing and sorting

. Updates of the Flight table can be paused when clicking onto a particular flight.
The flight table caption changes from blue to red when the table is paused.
Once paused the flight table can be scrolled without being refreshed (except for
color changes, these will still be updated).
Also, the flight table can be sorted when clicking onto the caption row and
onto a specific column together with the CTRL key => CTRL + LEFT MOUSE
A click onto any other line of the flight table will cancel the paused mode and
return to an active and unsorted display.
The sorting order is ascending for any selected column.
The flags (last) column can not be sorted.

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Build 73 - 18/01/2013

. FAQ button links to internet help page

.Contrast and squelch sliders of SISEX have 2 independant settings re zoom or

overview mode. More SISEX changes are in the manual on http://rtl1090.jetvision.de

. Flight table colored

- brown = descending
- cyan = climbing
- red - emergency
- light red - tcas alert pending
- pink - intent change (altitude reset or vhf radio freq changed)
- spi = yellow (transponder ident)
- alert = white (Mode A code changed)
- timeout = gray (delete in 15 secs)

. Additions to flight table column "*"

"o" odd CPR position data available only
"e" even CPR position data available only
"~" position timed out/lost

. Changes to flight table

Altitude (FL) supplemented by selected FL (MCP)
"=" indicates selected FL and actual FL match

. New flight table columns

"4" BDS4,0 EHS reply seen
"5" BDS5,0 EHS reply seen
"6" BDS6,0 EHS reply seen
"^" DO 260A/B DF17 format seen:
28 (BDS6,1) - 30(BDS6,2) - 31(BDS6,3) - Indicator
1 0 0 #
0 1 0 #
1 1 0 #
0 0 1 #
1 0 1 #
0 1 1 #
1 1 1 #

Due to different font pages on Windows PCs the indicators may be different.
A indicator line is printed during the start up messages in the list, just before
the message "Started...".
"DO 260A/B symbols: " - Left to right is up to down in the above table.

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Port 30003 Basestation compatible TCP socket implemented.

This socket operates by default on port 31004
(resp. 31014, 31024 etc). A cyan LED shows when a client is connected.
A total of 5 clients can be served at a time.

Command line switch "/30003" can override the default port setting to port 30003,
but be sure no other application (e.g. Basestation) has port 30003 opened at the
same
time.

This socket is widely compatible to Basestation TCP port 30003 format, with the
following deviations:

- The socket will deliver data in Flight Table mode only. This is to protect
system performance
- For performance reasons the socket sends data only every two seconds for each
aircraft in the flight table. Only the most up-to-date message per message type
will be sent, if this message was updated since the last transmission.

The following deviations from Port 30003 standard format exists

(ref. http://www.homepages.mcb.net/bones/SBS/Article/Barebones42_Socket_Data.htm) :
- STA => only RM, OK and AD submessages are sent
- SEL, CLK => not sent at all
- Session, aircraft and flight database fields are filled with 111,1111,111111
s as in Planeplotter
- Time is in full seconds only
- GS and True Track are in full knots/degrees only
- DF18 TIS-B modes may not be supported

Entry of a Home Position (optionally for port 30003 messages only)

The home position can be entered in the [CONFIG] dialog. Entry of a home
position accelerates aircraft position finding. Just copy your entry from
Planeplotter into the fields of the Config dialog.
The use of the home position can be disabled, e.g. for mobile use,
by unchecking the [USE] box.
For airport use of RTL1090 the surface position cannot be determined unambigously
without entry of a home position. Without a home position aircraft surface
positions
may be displaced by 90, 180 or 270 of longitude.

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Build 69 - 05/01/2013

- DF11 packets with SI>48 enabled

- Flight list: "*" indicates position Lat/Long available
- Beast format stuffing bug removed

SIS Explorer added.

Please READ the comprehensive summary at http://rtl1090.jetvision.de
(select SISEX from menu bar)
before using this very powerful techie tool.

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Build 66 - 23/12/12

This update fixes a bug in the Beast binary output that may have prevented a few
frames to reach Planeplotter.

No other changes.

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Build 62 - 18/12/12

Flight list altitude error removed

Mode A/C performance restored

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Build 61 - 16/12/12
- System resource usage and app speed enhanced
- Mode-S decoder enhanced and internal strict verification implemented to avoid
garbage being transmitted or listed
- Banners removed
- Flight list completed
- List flicker surpressed

Please note that the Flight List has a bug in relation to altitude display.
I will not be able to work on the project for some time, so I release it as is.
Also I would be interested in any comments on the performance in a high traffic
environment.

- Multi-dongle UDP packet concentrator mode

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Several dongles can be chained to one RTL1090 instance that serves as a TCP
server to PP. You can either combine several Mode-S or Mode-S and Mode A/C data
streams. For further details see the RTL1090 operating manual at
http://rtl1090.jetvision.de - Select RTL1090 manual from the side bar

A complete description is now available from the OPERATING MANUAL at

http://rtl1090.jetvision.de - Select RTL1090 manual from the side bar

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Build 57 = 11/12/12
- Gain list disabled when TUNER AGC on
- Mode A/C detection improved

Command line paramaters

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- Commandline parameter "/run" starts app after a few seconds
- Commandline parameter "/min" minimizes app after start
- Commandline parameter "/avr" outputs data at TCP port in AVR format
- Commandline parameter "/log" creates a logfile from the list disply
Logs are stored when list refreshes. Please note that list display and/or
log files slow down the system considerably and packets may get lost

Multi-dongle operations
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Several dongles can be operated in parallel by multiple
instances of RTL1090.
Usually there is no need to re-install the ZADIG driver for each dongle/USB slot,
just plug-in the dongle and start another instance of the app.
The dongle should be found and connected automatically.
I do not know in which order dongles are enumerated, so the device ID is in
order of instance starts.

TCP server ports: for a specific instance the port number is 31001 + n x 10.
I.e. device 0 is port 31001; device 1 is port 31011, etc. The current TCP
server port is shown in the status bar.

If you start multiple instances from the same folder the same settings will
be used and the last settings of any instance will be stored in the same settings
file. It is recommended to use different folder for multiple instances.

Aircraft list
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An aircraft list is available when the log list is not displayed.
For now it consists only of:
- Aircraft ID (ICAO code)
- Flight Level
Inactive aircraft will be delete after 1 min.
The list is not sorted.
The list will be further expanded in next releases.

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Build 54 = 24/11/12:

- gain silder disabled when TUNER AGC on

- FFT spectrum removed
- RTL AGC button posts message when clicked
- application minimizes to systray
- list display logic revised to save performance during scroll and update
- additional LED added: 0-10-20-40-80-120 msgs/sec
- consecutive SSR codes displayed as dots
- massive housekeeping and vacuum cleaning ;-)

Build 51 = 18/11/12:

- major bug in queue handling corrected

- automatic threshold detector implemented
- chip decoder Mode-S adjusted; threshold calculation revised for +-3dB
- Mode A/C re-enbled, was lost in B50
- chip decoder Mode-AC adjusted; theshold calculation revised for +-3dB
- A/C Frame bits need to be within 5 units
- double detector Mode-AC implemented; only codes that are shown at least twice
and consecutive are processed. This is permissable as the radar sweep generates
a bunch of replies, though interleaved replies A-C-A-C may suffer
- flight level converter for Mode A/C corrected (data shown in (Fxxx))
- Squawks that have only one single bit set are surpressed (except 2000 and 1000)
- List display shows last three bytes of any packet xor'ed by CRC.
Last three bytes should either show 00 00 00 for DF11 and 17 - or - aircraft id
for other DF.
- Mode-S packets DF17 of which a CRC is not valid (last 3 bytes = 00 00 00 in
display are not forwarded to output and display
- Mode-S packets DF11 of which a CRC is not valid (last 3 bytes = 00 00 xx in
display are not forwarded to output and display, xx in 00 to 3F
- Successful data rate displayed in status bar (second from left)