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Tracking Police and Military Aircraft at the G7 Summit with an RTL-SDR
Back in early 2016 we posted about a journalist who used an RTL-SDR to gather ADS-B data about the type of aircraft used at the world economic forum in Davos. The idea was to help highlight the vast...
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RadarBox24 Release their XRange RTL-SDR ADS-B Receiver
The team at radarbox24.com recently wrote in and wanted to share some new developments including news about their recently released RadarBox XRange receiver, which is an RTL-SDR based ADS-B receiver....
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Using an RTL-SDR to decode VOR Aircraft Navigation Beacons in Real Time
VOR stands for VHF Omnidirectional Range and is a way to help aircraft navigate by using fixed ground based beacons. The beacons are specially designed in such a way that the aircraft can use the...
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AERO C-Channel Voice Audio Now Decodable with JAERO
JAERO was recently updated by programmer Jonti, and it now supports the decoding of AERO C-Channels which are voice audio channels that exist on both the L-Band and C-Band frequencies of AERO. AERO is...
View ArticleSetting up Air Traffic Control Audio Sharing with Broadcastify, RTL-Airband,...
Over on YouTube Fuzz The Pi Guy has uploaded a video tutorial showing how to set up a Broadcastify air traffic control audio feed with RTL-Airband and an RTL-SDR running on a Raspberry Pi. This allows...
View ArticleAn Overview of Aircraft Communication Modes from HF to UHF
Over on YouTube icholakov has uploaded an informative video that gives an overview of the main communication modes that aircraft use from HF to UHF. In the video he also gives examples of those modes...
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An Open Source VOR Receiver for Airspy and RTL-SDR
Thank you to Thierry Leconte (TLeconte) for writing in and submitting his new command line based open source software called vortrack. Vortrack is a simple VOR decoder which calculates the angle...
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Feeding the dump1090 Aircraft Database with VDLM2DEC
For ADS-B decoding, dump1090 is an RTL-SDR compatible program that is commonly used. In order to provide information about the aircraft being detected (e.g. icao24 hex address, registration/tail number...
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RadarBox24 Specialty ADS-B RTL-SDR Reduced to $9.95 + Shipping
RadarBox24.com is a flight data aggregation service similar to sites like FlightAware.com and FlightRadar24.com. They aggregate ADS-B aircraft data obtained from (mostly) volunteer RTL-SDR based...
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A Portable RTL-SDR Based ADS-B Receiver with Display and 3D Printed Enclosure
Over on Hackaday.io user nathan.matsuda has written about his RTL-SDR based hand held ADS-B aircraft receiver with display and 3D printed enclosure. His initial idea was to create a flexible and open...
View ArticleSignalsEverywhere: ADS-B Aircraft Tracking with RTL-SDR, dump1090 and Virtual...
Over on his YouTube channel Corrosive from the SignalsEverywhere YouTube channel has uploaded a tutorial that shows how to set up ADS-B aircraft tracking with an RTL-SDR, dump1090 and Virtual Radar...
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Tracking Dictators Around the World with ADS-B Data
Over on Reddit freelance investigative journalist Emmanuel Freudenhal has put up a very interesting post about how he is using ADS-B tracking to keep an eye on the travel habits of dictators around the...
View ArticleSpoofing Aircraft Instrument Landing Systems with an SDR
Recently Arstechnica ran an in depth story about how a $600 USRP software defined radio could be used to trick an aircraft that is making use of the Instrument Landing System (ILS). ILS is a radio...
View ArticleDemonstrating HFDL Reception with a Cloud-IQ SDR and MultiPSK
Over on YouTube user Shortwave Bavaria has uploaded a video that demonstrates HFDL reception. HFDL is short for High Frequency Data Link and is a signal used by aircraft to communicate short messages...
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Stratux 1090 MHz + 978 MHz Diplexer Now Available
Recently the company Stratux released a new ADS-B/UAT diplexer PCB. This is useful if you have a single antenna and want to feed two RTL-SDR dongles, with one receiving 1090 MHZ ADS-B and the second...
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New Products in Store: RadarBox ADS-B Bundle Including Outdoor ADS-B Antenna...
A while back we posted about flight tracking company RadarBox.com who had launched their 1090 MHz ADS-B optimized RTL-SDR. Like other ADS-B optimized RTL-SDR's, the dongle contains a 1090 MHz filter...
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Tracking Company Jets with ADS-B to Give an Edge to Hedge Fund Investors
Financial news site Bloomberg recently ran an article about how hedge fund managers are using ADS-B to track private company aircraft in order to help predict the next megadeal between companies. They...
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Android ADS-B Flight Tracker with 3D Aircraft Display
ADSB Flight Tracker is an Android App that allows you to display ADS-B flight data in either 2D or 3D. It works either with data shared from others over the internet via aggregation sites like...
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A Remote ADS-B, ACARS, VDL2 and Air Traffic Control Voice Monitoring Station...
Over on Reddit u/tsimola has posted about his remote ADS-B station that is accessed via an LTE connection. When an opportunity came up to install a remote ADS-B station on a tall building with...
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Automatically Photographing Passing Aircraft with an RTL-SDR, Pi 3, and IoT...
Arun Venkataswamy has recently completed a write up about his system which automatically captures images of passing aircraft. It works by using a Raspberry Pi and RTL-SDR to listen to ADS-B broadcasts...
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