Andy over at jetvision.de, the developer of RTL1090, has authored a piece of software that simplifies installation of RTL1090 and all of the libraries and drivers needed to run it. As Andy puts it in an email on the RTL1090 English Yahoo Group, the RTL1090 Installation and Maintenance Utility “…downloads all necessary files from the …
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Integrating Virtual Radar Applications
Earlier this year I wrote a short post about how I had connected together a large number of various virtual radar applications, so that each was receiving or feeding data to another. Over time, my setup has changed, as have a couple of the networking apps. Out is ComByTCP; in is hub4com. Nitric oxide acts …
ADS-B and the Raspberry Pi Revisited
Seven months ago I took a stab at using a Raspberry Pi as a virtual radar server. It didn’t go well. Not well at all. I tried again a couple of times but became frustrated with a variety of different glitches, mostly with the Pi itself and its networking. Yesterday I took yet another stab …
Altitude Makes All the Difference
I see a lot of questions about whether the stock antenna that comes with many of the RTLSDR dongles is any good. The answer is dependent on many variables, including how high you have the antenna placed. Today I did a test and took a dongle, the stock antenna and my laptop to Toronto Pearson …
Using Globe-S RTL Edition with RTL1090
The RTL1090 Yahoo Group mailing list has had quite a few posts recently from folks having trouble getting RTL1090 and Globe-S RTL Edition working together. The funny thing is, the two programs are designed to work together! Regardless, people hit snags. In an effort to help out, I’ve put together this tutorial. Connect your dongle and …