petehowell
Well Known Member
Late tonight I reviewed the raw data from the flight to Fargo today.
I was very interested to see there were no RED or error packets. At All! I have never noticed this before, So I took the analysis a bit further.
--Nerd Alert--
I downloaded the data into excel, parsed it, and calculated all the time deltas between packets(position reports). Results were interesting.
282 total packets
51% were approx a minute apart
43% were less than a minute apart (smartbeaconing)
2% were b/t 1 and 2 min apart
3% were b/t 2 and 3 min apart
1% were b/t 3 and 4 min apart
The tracker I am using listens for a clear freq before transmitting, so the 51% pings approx a minute apart varied from 59sec to 1min19sec apart.
Not sure exactly what I learned from this, but I am happy with the quality of tracks the rig is sending out.
--Nerd Alert Cancelled--
Carry on......
I was very interested to see there were no RED or error packets. At All! I have never noticed this before, So I took the analysis a bit further.
--Nerd Alert--
I downloaded the data into excel, parsed it, and calculated all the time deltas between packets(position reports). Results were interesting.
282 total packets
51% were approx a minute apart
43% were less than a minute apart (smartbeaconing)
2% were b/t 1 and 2 min apart
3% were b/t 2 and 3 min apart
1% were b/t 3 and 4 min apart
The tracker I am using listens for a clear freq before transmitting, so the 51% pings approx a minute apart varied from 59sec to 1min19sec apart.
Not sure exactly what I learned from this, but I am happy with the quality of tracks the rig is sending out.
--Nerd Alert Cancelled--
Carry on......