Complete FlightRadar24 Build on Raspberry Pi and SDR Dongles. ADS-B AIRCRAFT RADAR System Part 1

There are a few programs that allow you to track commercial airlines Worldwide with something as simple as a smart phone. Now what I'm interested in is actually detecting planes in my location and contributing to the overall system by sending this data into my chosen platform via the internet. This video mainly talks about FlightRadar24 but there are others such as FlightAware. To be able to receive and capture the data automatically sent from the planes overhead I am using a Raspberry Pi single board computer, SDR and an antenna. Thats about all you need part from power and an internet connection. This is part 1 of a 2 part video and explains exactly what I have done and some of the results I'm getting. I have a 24/7 rig running at the moment with a second experimental one. This experimental rig will allow me to try out different antennas, SDR USB dongles, antenna cable lengths and locations, active USB cables etc while keeping the main rig on-line. In part 2 I'll release the improvements or not, I've made by swapping in and out various components. The main part of the system, apart from the Pi is the SDR dongle, which stands for Software Defined Radio. Put basically, its a device that is able to pick up electrical transmissions on a very wide range of frequencies from the humble pop music station to the Space Station! Literally!! With the right software the possibilities are endless. Some SDR's are better at, for instance picking up 1090Mhz, the band I'm looking for. Thats where the experimenting is coming in, using different dongles and LNA's (low noise amps and filters). I've linked in important sites below where you can get all the information you need on SDR's and what I'm trying to do, ADS-B AIRCRAFT RADAR detection as well as many of the components I've used. Please keep a look out for Part 2 of this video 👍🏽

FlightRadar24: https://www.flightradar24.com/ FlightAware: https://flightaware.com SDR Blog site: https://www.rtl-sdr.com SDR Blog page about ADS-B: https://www.rtl-sdr.com/adsb-aircraft-radar-with-rtl-sdr/

Components used:

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