Interested in what planes are flying over your location? Want to know how high they are and how fast they are going? Want to build your own ADS-B (Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast) ground station that can be installed anywhere and receive real-time data directly from airplanes on your computer? In 2017 we wrote a couple of articles about tracking planes using ADS-B, and it is time for an update!
The 2017 version used a 4D Systems 2.4″ touchscreen HAT for a display, USB DVB-T TV Tuner RTL2832U + R820T as our Software Defined Radio (SDR), and ran PiAware on a Raspberry Pi 3 Model B (v1.2). The 2023 version uses all new and upgraded hardware. Read all about it, on our latest Medium article.
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