[NLRS] AirScout for aircraft scatter

[Doug Reed]

A month or two ago I suggested the possibility of doing lightwave
comms by scatter from airplane contrails. I mentioned that ADSB
beacons sent from the aircraft allow us to track them hundreds of
miles away. And maybe this data could be coupled with something like
the rain scatter programs for path prediction....

Tonight I found this email on the UKnanowaves reflector:
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DL2ALF tool for aircraft scatter prediction, called AirScout
    Posted by: "graham787" g0nbd at hotmail.com graham787
    Date: Fri May 31, 2013 3:09 pm ((PDT))

This link just popped up in the  digital  group , might  be  useful ?

<http://www.dj5ar.de/?p=606>
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So in case anyone is interested, the link goes to a blog post
describing the program and how it works. AirScout uses Open Street
Maps and topo info to avoid pointing too low into a mountain or hill.
This might work for light, it will probably work as intended for 10GHz
too. The author of the blog was trying it on 1296.

Just one more tool to play with. Since the program requires Internet
access for maps, it might be worth seeing if it can interface with the
output of a DVB-T dongle receiving the ADSB signals on 1GHz. And then
see what can be done about saving the map files on the local computer.
But at least it should work for home stations....

73, Doug Reed, N0NAS.