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A fantastic new experimental ACARS (Aircraft Communications, Addressing and Reporting System) plugin has been released for SDRplay's SDRuno package, and it's really very interesting. If you thought ADSB was cool, try pairing it with ACARS. With FlightRadar24 alongside, you can know more about any given aircraft than the pilots. I watched real-time as the nose-wheel fell off an Airbus A320-214 on approach to Lisbon!
OK, so I made that bit up, but you can download the plugin from Github here: https://github.com/JvanKatwijk/unoPlugins-jan
Just hit the Code button, then Download Zip and install into the standard SDRuno Community Plugins folder, wherever you configured that to be.
Many thanks to Jvan Katwijk for this excellent piece of work.
If you want or need more help with this, then check out the equally professional Tech Minds YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/E391Z8mb6kk
Berni M0XYF
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Just a quick one - I've added a module in the right hand sidebar (on most pages, but not all) where you can type in a callsign and hit enter to look it up on QRZ. I thought it might be handy in certain situations. You have to be logged in to QRZ if you want the additional details etc. so it depends on how often you clear your cookies etc. but I hope you find it useful.
Berni M0XYF
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I have recently bought a NanoVNA-F V2 Portable to replace my miniVNA - originally marketed by miniRadio Solutions (Mrs).
The latter was supported by Dietmar Krause DL2SBA for many years. However, he recently gave up his role of development and support for this range of VNAs via his website dl2sba.com. It is now no longer possible to download the software for the miniVNA from this site, although I still have the most recent upgrade on my PC. This VNA was a useful piece of equipment with a variety of different graphical outputs and was easy to use.
In the past, the following website has proved useful with the miniVNA in determining the characteristics of impedance of ferrite and iron-powder cores, filters and coils etc. I expect it could also be used with the NanoVNA, although I have not tried it out:
https://www.nonstopsystems.com/radio/frank_radio_coax-sw.htm
Whereas the miniVNA covered analysis from 0.1 to 180MHz, the NanoVNA-F V2, supplied by SYSJOINT Information Technology Co. Ltd. covers 50kHz to 3GHz.
There is a user group: NanoVNA V2 Forum and you can download the manual here: 
This is as much as I can say at the moment, until I have spent more time using it. Hopefully other people will come along and share their experiences.
Regards
Alex Henderson M0TOT
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Not sure it warrants an award, but it's nice to know that a server-side script out there somewhere knows that I'm still alive!
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Phil G4UDU mentioned this a couple of days ago, and I thought I'd take a quick look. It's the RSGB Transatlantic Centenary Tests, staged to commemorate the first transatlantic amateur radio signal - between Wandsworth and North America using (G)5WS.
It's annoyingly addictive in a masochistic kind of way, and it's particularly twisted in that as far as a transatlantic test celebration, it involves us as GB stations trying NOT to get across the Atlantic, but to hit-up all the (original, renewed) GB station callsigns involved in the very first tests.
You can view the leaderboard, and search for callsigns here: https://clublog.org/charts/transatlantic100.php
Of the MSARS members I can find, Phil is in the lead with 34, I'm second with 9, and Ken is still in the running with 2.
Yeah, I know, but I'm kind of poking you with a stick here. Can you beat 2? Well CAN you?
Berni M0XYF
