Mike Schumann wrote on 11/8/2020 11:26 AM:
Why is this confusing? UAT is a modern protocol designed by Mitre to provide a huge increase in bandwidth to enable large increases in traffic and additional services, such as weather radar, etc. In addition, UAT transceivers utilize much lower cost and lower power hardware. 1090ES is another bandaid added to 1940s vintage transponder technology that was originally developed during WW II. What is unfortunate is that the FAA buckled to the international aviation community, instead of mandating that ADS-B in the US be standardized on UAT. As a result we get the complications of a dual frequency system.

Most Ads-B receivers sold in the US, except for FLARM, are now dual frequency so they can see both UAT and 1090ES traffic without being within range of an ADS-B ground station. This is a no brainer given the cost of this hardware ($175 for the pingUSB, $200 for Scout).

Perhaps LXNav, LXNavigation, etc could persuaded to use their wifi for a connection to Scout,
or USB connection for the Ping USB. Or maybe better, Flarm would develop a WiFi/USB connection
to Ping USB or Scout, and merge that data with the Flarm data output.

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