Mode-S and ADS-B on a Raspberry Pi

Caveat What follows is what I wrote the day after setting up my Raspberry Pi to receive and decode Mode-S and ADS-B messages from commercial aircraft. Before publishing this post, I followed my own instructions to get it working a second time. I failed. I failed not because my steps are wrong; I failed not …

How to Setup ADSBScope

There has been quite a bit of back and forth on the RTL1090 Yahoo Group lately about setting up ADSBScope to monitor aircraft using an RTLSDR dongle. It isn’t difficult, but ADSBScope isn’t very intuitive and the German spellings in some of the menu items could lead to some confusion. However, since it’s free, you …

Today’s Flights — How To Extract Data from BaseStation.sqb

I recently added a page to this website, Today’s Flights, that shows all of the aircraft recorded by my virtual radar setup during the calendar day. If you’re interested in doing the same on your website, here’s a tutorial that explains how I did it with my WordPress-based blog. What You Will Need sqlite3.exe — …

Connecting the ADS-B Dots

I’ve had a few emails from people curious about how all of the applications mentioned on this site connect together. Apart from the step-by-step instructions, the best way I can think of to show the flow of data is with a chart. So below is a diagram with all the connections. There isn’t any great …