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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …