ADS-B

Flight tracking @ 1090 MHz

• Powers FlightAware

Radio#

• RTLSDRs work well out of the box for ADS-B listening
  • I use the Nooelec NESDR Smart V4 (affiliate link)

Software#

MacOS#

• Cocoa1090
  • Need to run rtl_tcp first
  • Map view isn’t great
• Dump1090 by antirez
  • Much better map view, but doesn’t work in Brave
  • ./dump1090 --interactive --net

Raspberry Pi#

Dump1090 and OpenSky tutorial

Antennas#

• Wine cork antenna
• The shorter antennas with the RTLSDR work great
• ADS-B Antenna