Paul 5r4
Well Known Member
In preparing for the potential removal of my navworx EXP ADSB unit, I've purchased the stratux unit. Total cost was $130 for this dual band receiver. The recommend gps antenna isn't available. I use the dual antenna so didn't need it anyway. It went together just like it should and fit nicely into the case. Assembly time was about 30 minutes. I took it flying today and did a side by side comparison with the Navworx. Navworx wifi to my ifly and the stratus wifi to my nexus tablet. I was interested to see if the FAA was somehow filtering some of the traffic out of the affected navworx units. My findings:
1. This little box worked beautifully. It yields the very same information as all
the other units costing $800-1000!
2. Several times during the flight I looked at the number of aircraft that each
was displaying by tapping the ADSB button. They were always with 2 of each
other. Sometimes the navworx showed more targets then the next the
stratux was showing more hits. I guess the FAA isn't doing any kind of
filtering against Navworx.... at least not yet.
3. Unless you've wired a USB outlet into your panel... this is a battery only unit.
Any infö I found stated about 4 hours with the 6000 mah battery pack. I find
that hard to believe because there's also a small cooling fan running on the
battery. The battery is super light... something like 6 oz IIRC.
I like it
Edited December 11th to add these screen shots. The stratux was sitting on the top of my car in a park and this is the traffic picture I had. I do think I was close to an adsb tower.... like a few hundred yards maybe... It would be hard to believe ALL of the traffic I saw in this photo were adsb out equipped. So, someone was and it was causing the tower close to me to send out a signal and anyone with adsb in.... well this is what they got. I like the stratux!
1. This little box worked beautifully. It yields the very same information as all
the other units costing $800-1000!
2. Several times during the flight I looked at the number of aircraft that each
was displaying by tapping the ADSB button. They were always with 2 of each
other. Sometimes the navworx showed more targets then the next the
stratux was showing more hits. I guess the FAA isn't doing any kind of
filtering against Navworx.... at least not yet.
3. Unless you've wired a USB outlet into your panel... this is a battery only unit.
Any infö I found stated about 4 hours with the 6000 mah battery pack. I find
that hard to believe because there's also a small cooling fan running on the
battery. The battery is super light... something like 6 oz IIRC.
I like it
Edited December 11th to add these screen shots. The stratux was sitting on the top of my car in a park and this is the traffic picture I had. I do think I was close to an adsb tower.... like a few hundred yards maybe... It would be hard to believe ALL of the traffic I saw in this photo were adsb out equipped. So, someone was and it was causing the tower close to me to send out a signal and anyone with adsb in.... well this is what they got. I like the stratux!
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