Category Archives: SDR

FLARM w szybowcu (zdjęcie: Sebastian Lampart)

Tracking gliders, airplanes, helicopters and baloons, part 3 – FLARM

We already know how to track airplanes using DVB-T USB dongle and Orange Pi or Raspberry Pi. Let’s move on to a new system that allows tracking of light aircrafts: gliders helicopters baloons smaller airplanes FLARM – is a collision avoidance system for light aircrafts, popularized and approved by EASA, gaining traction, used mainly on gliders in Poland and Europe. We’re not going to use it to avoid collision – but to receive position and track light aircrafts – so we can share them on the…

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Quatas A380

Tracking airplanes with ADS-B & MLAT revisted- building a better and cheaper reciever for Flightradar 24 and Flightaware

[Update 2017-08-22 – Sharing data with friendly radars] A lot has changed since the last entry about tracking the aircraft using ADS-B messages. There are new options for data sharing, greatly simplified installation procedure and – optionally new equipment. This allows you to build a new receiver with an emphasis on simplicity, yet lower cost of purchase and maintenance with new feature (MLAT). Moreover, in addition to the aircraft you can now track other aircraft – i.e. meteorological balloons! I call that progress! What will…

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