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Looking back an advantage to the WB1200 is you get a desktop display of your active weather data so it’s similar to any normal weather station inside the house. You are just limited to your wifi network range. Point is you get earnings from your weather station running compared to buying one retail for the same price that has no benefit other than weather info.
@Petah_Grill IMO I would want to get the pole tall enough so the Antenna just sticks up above that ridge line. secure it with 2 antenna brackets attached to the wall at the pole mid way and up close to and just below that ridge line. That will secure the antenna from moving. If you need to remove it you can always fill in the screw holes on the side with matching color caulk. Blocks of wood between the antenna mount and the wall can extend the antenna mount out to clear the soffit.
Last, I believe that the antenna base should be grounded, which would be a wire from antenna base to a ground rod in the ground and better one closest to the electrical ground outside at the meter. Some may discount this idea as not the greatest but the ground plug of a 3 prong outlet should lead directly to the outside ground Thru a common ground block in the electrical panel. I don’t recommend that Per code but if its the only alternative, it may be better than nothing. But only as a last resort. The other methods above are better.
If you are in a no wind location, then maybe the pole could just stand there as long as it doesn’t move or wave with the wind. Small movements of just a few inches of swinging can affect your GEOD rewards accuracy. 6 to 12 inch swings might be a problem for accuracy. It shouldn’t affect ADS-B which is just receiving signals. It does rely on GEOD antennas to declare location accuracy.
I have 1 to 2 inch swings with winds and my GEOD rewards haven’t been affected. More effect by visual satellites in sky.
That looks like about 10 to 12 feet in pole length to get the antenna just above the roof line and actually if you could support the pole just below the overhang underside somehow that should secure the antenna pole. with just the base attached.
Theres a huge market. Software developers can take advantage of the data to provide to carriers, commercial and government. This is an excellent backup system for critical infrastructure. The numbers of uptime and backups with multiple antennas across the globe. The receiver information is very precise. Flight schools could use the data to track and record flight data and there are use cases for geofencing. With worldwide Coverage.
Head on over to a commercial aircraft expo and see what’s out there. This fits right in and this data can collect individual subscribers paying $30 to $100 per month for data. Commercial may pay that per aircraft.
Helicopters can be covered closer to the ground with more wingbits ground stations in multiple areas. Radar doesn’t cover that.
Wingbits should have a booth at the NBAA conference in Las Vegas this October. Or The Heliexpo conference in February. These are private and commercial aviation users, buyers and sellers. Then EBACE in Europe every May. If they do, then they’re moving in the right direction. Expos like these generate a huge amount of interest or contacts leading to solid potential for sales and expansion.
Wingbits data may have faster access and updating of data compared with other systems. Data is also cryptographically secured.
Flightaware and flightradar24 sell their data. The data they get free they sell. Its packaged.
Large corporations are looking for ways to get into depin or digital assets. Wingbits will open doors for those companies. It will start in the millions but could easily grow into the hundreds of millions with the worldwide coverage.
