How to Track Government Aircraft 200 Miles Away with a Raspberry Pi

Aircraft equipped with ADS-B are constantly shouting their location into the radio void, along with other useful unauthenticated and unencrypted data. Using an ADS-B receiver with a Software Defined Radio (SDR) and a Raspberry Pi, which will make in this guide, we can track any aircraft anywhere in the world in real time. However, using public source data has some limitations, like blocking some interesting private jets and government aircraft or lack of coverage at lower altitudes. Now, we can collect our own data! What's that, FlightAware? I can't track this plane? Right.. The Raspberry Pi... more

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