TIS-B costs

What's the incremental cost for the FAA to install the hardware to provide
TIS-B at a Mode S ASR-9 installation? References appreciated.

Thanks

Julian Scarfe

On Fri, 20 May 2005 06:53:37 GMT, "Julian Scarfe"
wrote:

What's the incremental cost for the FAA to install the hardware to provide
TIS-B at a Mode S ASR-9 installation? References appreciated.

No offense intended, but...
I'm not exactly sure what you're asking...and why?

All Mode-S/ASR-9 sites should have the capability of TIS. We maintain
the hardware but TIS is all software magic to us field guys. Not
sure what "TIS-B" is. Can you enlighten me?

--Don Byrer
FAA Airways Facilites Radar Guy
(ASR-9/ Mode-S tech)

Don Byrer
Electronics Technician/Friendly but Sarcastic Pilot
FAA Airways Facilites/Tech Ops, RADAR/Data/Comm @ CLE
Amateur Radio KJ5KB
Instrument Pilot Commercial Student
PP-ASEL 30 Jan 2005 "-IA" 25 Mar 2005

TIS-B is the new name for ADS-B, coupled to the ATC radar. It's
actually a fairly nice solution to the "chicken and the egg" problem.
It allows equipped aircraft to see not only other similarly equipped
aircraft, but also any other aircraft that ATC can see.

Unfortunately, deployment is so far only in very limited locations on
the east coast (and part of Alaska, of course). Here in Texas I don't
expect to see it for decades. [We basically don't even have TIS yet.]