Tom’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...
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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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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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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....
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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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...
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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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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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