Alright, who else saw this on Alec Muffet's twitter feed while reading about the Sun 2's secret message?
Cool, but I'm not sure about the practical uses. Perhaps to test the accuracy of all the flight trackers out there??
Cool, but I'm not sure about the practical uses. Perhaps to test the accuracy of all the flight trackers out there??
It's a fun thing to setup and watch. :-)
We sell a similar receiver in our store! https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/mini-digital-tv-stick
paradoxical difference between that consumer grade setup and military grade system:
http://www.businessinsider.com/the-flaw-in-the-buk-missile-s...
"So the Buk can pick up the signal of an aircraft. But if it's operating in standalone mode, it can't tell whether that aircraft is a military target, or a jetliner with nearly 300 people onboard."
I've got four of these "ADS-B receivers" (Raspberry Pi + SDR dongle + antenna) up and running in four different locations with a few more that still need to be set up and deployed. I don't have a practical use but it is pretty neat.
I considered trying to write my own stuff to do MLAT for aircraft without ADS-B transmitters after I get the others deployed but my math probably isn't that good.
Another thought was to log all of the location data from all my receivers to a central database and do "something" with it, although I've yet to figure out what that "something" is/would be.
Seems like you're trying to come up with one!
My only point about practicality is that I don't know what I would use this for. Wrong term I suppose.