Receiving ADS-B Jetliner Traffic with a Simple Paper Clip
Over on YouTube user icholakov has uploaded a new video showing how easy it can be to build a cheap ADS-B antenna out of a simple paper clip and coax connector. Modern aircraft carry an ADS-B...
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Creating an Encrypted ADS-B Plane Spotter with a Raspberry Pi, RTL-SDR and SSL
These days it’s quite easy to share your ADS-B reception on the internet with giant worldwide aggregation sites like flightaware.com and flightradar24.com. These sites aggregate received ADS-B plane...
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HamRadio360 Podcast: ADS-B Aircraft Tracking with an RTL-SDR
HamRadio360 is a bi-weekly podcast all about ham radio and related topics. On their June 13 podcast Nick, KK6LHR came on to discuss his experiences with decoding ADS-B with cheap SDR radio like the...
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Akos’ ADS-B Performance Comparison of 19 Different RTL-SDR Dongles
Over on his blog radioforeveryone.com author Akos has run a large comparative test of 19 different types and brands of RTL-SDR dongles on ADS-B reception. He takes multiple dongles from NooElecs...
View ArticleVisualizing the Traveled Path of a Weather Balloon, Tanker Boat and Gliders...
Over on YouTube user pascal poulain has uploaded a short video that shows a timelapse of the flight path of a weather balloon in Cesiumjs as it rises and falls, as well as a time lapse of a marine...
View ArticleShowing what VOR and ILS Aviation Signals Look like in SDR#
Over on YouTube user RedWhiteandPew has uploaded two videos showing what VOR and ILS signals look like in SDR# with an RTL-SDR dongle. VOR and ILS are both radio signals used for navigation in...
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RadioForEveryone New Posts: Antenna Weatherproofing, NooElec Nano 3 Review,...
Over on his blog 'Radio for Everyone' author Akos has uploaded three new posts. The first shows how to cheaply weatherproof antenna connections by wrapping electrical/plumbing tape around the...
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Outernet Dreamcatcher Setup with ADS-B dump1090 and PiAware Tutorial
The Outernet Dreamcatcher is a single board PC with a built in RTL-SDR. It has a TCXO and two SMA ports, one being amplified and filtered for L-band applications and the other being a regular port for...
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A High Performance RTL-SDR ADS-B Receiver Build Guide
ADS-B Setup in an outdoor enclosure. Includes FlightAware ADS-B Antenna, FlightAware RTL-SDR Dongle, Raspberry Pi, POE Splitter. Over on Imgur and Reddit user Mavericknos has uploaded a very nice...
View ArticleTom’s Radio Room Tests and Reviews the RTL-SDR Blog Multipurpose Dipole Kit
Over on his YouTube channel Tom Stiles (hamrad88) has been experimenting with and reviewing our multipurpose dipole kit. Tom is a ham radio YouTuber who runs a show that produces content often, so we...
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New Product: RTL-SDR Blog 1090 MHz ADS-B LNA
We're happy to announce the release of our new high performance low noise amplifier (LNA) for improving 1090 MHz ADS-B reception. The LNA uses a low noise figure high linearity two stage MGA-13116...
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Running a NAS, Torrentbox and ADS-B RTL-SDR Server all on the same Raspberry...
Most readers are familiar with the Raspberry Pi 3 and how it can be used with RTL-SDR applications such as ADS-B reception. However, one does not need to dedicate an entire Pi 3 to a single task as...
View ArticleRTLSDR-Airband V3 Released
Thanks to RTL-SDR.com reader Lee Donaghy for writing in and little us know that RTLSDR-Airband was recently updated to include SoapySDR support. This allows the software to now work with almost any SDR...
View ArticleListening to SELCAL and the HF Air Band with an RTL-SDR
Over on YouTube content creator Tech Minds continues to upload informative RTL-SDR based videos, this time discussing SELCAL and the HF Air Band. For international flights it is common for aircraft to...
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Radio For Everyone: Testing the RTL-SDR.com Triple Filtered ADS-B LNA,...
Akos, author of his blog 'Radio for Everyone' has recently reviewed our new RTL-SDR.com Triple Filtered ADS-B LNA. In the review he compares our ADS-B LNA against another external ADS-B LNA by...
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PiAware Radar – A Traditional Radar-Like Display for ADS-B, and Setting up an...
PiAware Radar is a Python script that connects to your PiAware server and uses the received ADS-B data to display a familiar radar-like display (green circle with rotating radius, and aircraft...
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Testing the Airspy with the New And Improved Version of ADSBSpy
Airspy have recently released an update to their ADSBspy decoder, which is an Airspy One/R2 compatible decoder for 1090 MHZ ADS-B signals. According to 'prog', the software developer of ADSBSpy, his...
View ArticleTysonpower Reviews our Triple Filter ADS-B LNA
Thank you to YouTuber 'Tysonpower' who is known for making various RF related videos as he has recently reviewed our Triple Filtered ADS-B LNA on his blog and on YouTube. Note that his video is in...
View ArticleGetting the V3 Bias Tee to Activate on PiAware ADS-B Images
A few owners of our RTL-SDR V3 and/or our Triple Filtered ADS-B LNA (or other bias tee powered LNAs) have been having trouble getting the V3 bias tee to activate on the FlightAware PiAware Raspberry Pi...
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Tracking Planes with RTL-SDR, Apache Kafka, KSQL, Kibana and a Raspberry Pi
Inspired by a low flying aircraft that kept waking his cat in the morning, Simon Aubury decided to use an RTL-SDR and ADS-B tracking software dump1090 to determine which plane was the culprit. This is...
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