Been playing around with SDR using a RTLSDR dongle, and right now I’m receiving ADS-B from nearby aircraft.

Was shockingly easy to setup using ModeSDeco2 which even provides a local web interface (you would normally feed a site like ADS-B Exchange that combines the results from thousands of receivers around the world).

I’m using a simple dipole antenna stuck to a window with poor LOS to the sky (amazing planning), but I’d like to setup something a little better in the future and maybe feed too. So I thought I’d save some images of my current results to compare with later.

Map

Breakdown of contacts by distance

Coverage pattern

Summary over 24 hours

(Blue are messages, red are positions. It’s very quiet now as you’d expect)