posts tagged adb-s

I've mounted the antenna for the adb-s captue on to the outside of the shed, as high as I could easily mount it. I wasn't expecting any thing dramatic but the range how now increased enormously: from Liverpool to south of London and from Hull to Gloucester!

Just a piece of metal bent into an 'L' shape and screwed to the shed; the antenna itself has a magnetic base. Live updates can be found here.

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While I'm waiting to make this data available for wider use, here's the real time data from the local ADS-B plane transponder transmissions (click here to break out of the iframe):

(Nothing clever, it's just dump1090's built in webserver via mod_proxy to the outside world. Hardware is just a cheap RTL2832U based digital TV usb stick.)

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