Stratux ADS-B Dual Band Receiver Aviation Weather and Traffic - Internal WAAS GPS, AHRS, Battery Pack, Suction Mount, Antennas, SDR

This seems to work pretty well, even from on the ground. The external antennas make it a little more fragile & cumbersome to store compared to some other brands of ADS-B receivers, but those antennas also seem to pick up signals that the others might miss, which is more important to me, especially if a lot of clouds are around. External antennas also give you the option to mount antennas outside the fuselage, using cables with SMA connectors for further improved performance. For a permanently installed unit, this would seem to be the best way to go. For a portable unit, it's still pretty darn good. The 4 suction cup mount works well. 2 spare cups were included. ...And the package says made in the USA by a Vet. I'm having a hard time finding something to not like.Set up was pretty easy. It came with a power cable that has a switch in it, which is a nice bonus that I was not expecting. You can access the data in the unit directly using a hard IP address in a web browser once WiFi communications have been established. You can even view GPS info & local aircraft traffic there, without using actual flight software. It typically picks up about 10 GPS satellites at once, and that's without plugging in the external GPS antenna. Despite having all that information, altitude is often off by 100 feet or a little more, but that is common on other GPS units that I have too. A G-force indicator & other screens are also available on the basic pages. Calibration of the attitude indicator required probably close to a minute or so of straight & level flight after hitting the zero button. It's probably best done on the ground. The 6-hour battery that came with it actually lasted 5 hours before the unit cut out, then I turned it on again & got another hour, which did total to 6. Perhaps a power connector just got wiggled loose after 5 hours??? The ride was a little bumpy that day.The 6-hour battery that came with it is rated at 10,000mAH, which also means 10 amp-hours. That's a pretty big & chunky battery capacity in such a small package. Most of the others I have seen out there in that physical size carry more like 1/3 of that amount of charge. Your typical little Cessna often has about a 17 Amp-Hour battery for starting the motor.This thing seems to be a lot of bang for the buck. It fits well in this case -https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09PJ5PPNT?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title

The image shows everything that came in the box.The Stratux itself.A suction cup mount with six total cups, two extra after mounting the four to the mount.Two antennas, one for each frequency.A power cable with button to make turning the Stratux off easier.A 10Ah battery. (Actual capacity measured to 9.3Ah)A strap to strap the battery to the Stratux.A micro SD card reader to reflash the micro SD card that is already in the Stratux.The Stratux came with the latest firmware and worked without issue right out of the box. Make sure to put your phone or tablet in airplane mode then turn on WiFi and connect to the stratux wifi to configure the device as well as change settings.The battery is different than the one shown in the image. The one in the listing uses a 6Ah battery with a built in cord. The one supplied is a 10Ah without a built in cord. To replace the built in cord, they haveincluded a cord that has a power button.This new battery holds about 9.3Ah as seen in the image bottom left.This new battery has USB C to charge however it does not seem to have a USB C controller as it charges at 5V 2A just like the USB B Micro does. Further, this battery cannot charge a USB C device via the USB C port. Only the two USB A ports offer charge. Considering the use case for this battery of powering the Stratux, it is good enough for the job.While I doubt it is required, it is possible to gracefully shutdown the stratux using the UI by connecting to the webui of the device itself. It is a small computer after all and shutting it down gracefully when possible couldn't hurt.

I don’t fly without it! Works great. It connects via WFI to my iPad, in seconds. For the last four years I used it with ForeFlight, just recently I switched to Garmin FLT Plan, it works great with both. Very satisfied with the quality, and it was half the price of Stratus. Thanks.