I know everybody here is busy tracking planes but maybe you can help me out. RTL-SDR w Win10. Dump1090 and Virtual Radar installed and appear to be working but no air traffic. I can see activity on SDR++ but nothing on Dump1090. With Dump1090, does the spinning bar on top mean it is actively searching?

There's commercial aircraft flying overhead at cruising altitude and military aircraft from a large military base. Also Special Forces aircraft overhead at less than 5K'. I figure I should see something, even with a basic antenna.

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Got V3 dongle and learning how it work ,seeing a little plane on the map is something

I wanted to share some screenshots from a software prototype i am working on. So what is this about? I have a very basic beginners Raspberry + Dongle + Antenna setup. It works and is fun. The raspberry runs a little web server and provides access to a basic map (2D and 3D) to display the current traffic.

When i am not at home, i sometimes look in the sky, see a plane and check with my smartphone what plane it is. Cool, but it would be more fun to

• Point the smartphone's camera at the plane
• Get the info right away from the raspberry back home
• Display it on the camera feed.

So here is my first approach to this. Green square is the crosshair. Top right is a grayscale auto-tracking zoomed in video of the plane closest to the crosshair. Red squares are planes. Yes, i know, yellow for the font color was a very bad idea :-)

Let me know what you think.

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Just finding it a bit odd that there's this many flights, all seemingly outbound from the US, on a Wednesday night at nearly midnight... Usually some scattered flights crossing the Atlantic, but nothing like these lines of aircraft! Maybe I'm just seeing something out of nothing?

Just saw a plane fly low overhead. Turns out it's an interesting one! U.S. Air Force 757 which has been circling and just landed at Albany International.

I have a USB ADS-B receiver with an antenna, how could I receive the messages in Python? for example how could I print the message it receives to the console, with this I would write a script to decode it on my own and use the information in my projects.

Example of what im trying to make:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohEdEhbAwf8

Guessing part of an offshore exercise? Day 2 of seeing the same orbit.

ADS-B Exchange - track aircraft live

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Long time aviation enthusiast, finally jumped in and built a dual-band raspberry pi feeder around a month ago.

Honestly, I'm shocked at the relative affordability of this hobby-- can get started for ~$50, and seems like you can get "the best" of everything for ~$500. So I'm starting to put a bit more into it, but want to make sure I'm not wasting money.

• Is there any data on real-world impact of changing specific variables? "If I swap my adsbx blue stick for an airspy mini + sawbird 1090 filter/amp, my range increased by x%, aircraft increased by y%, messages increased by z%"
• Same question for other variables-- various antennas, antenna locations (interior vs window vs attic vs outdoor mast)
• "keep the coax runs as short as possible to minimize losses", but then I see people with 50+ feet of coax from their basement to the top of a mast. What gives? / How much does 50 feet of coax actually matter?
• At what point does lightning protection become important? Exterior antenna? high gain antenna inside a building? how hardcore does the ground need to be?-- for a high gain antenna in the attic, can I just connect the lightning protection to any old ground in my home's electrical system? If I skip the lightning protection, can I isolate the feeder from the rest of my home's wiring and just accept the risk of frying the feeder hardware? Does it matter if I have a whole-house surge protector?

Big birds just cruising.

A loud one that caught my attention!

Saw this badass helicopter doing sweeps over my area… Unsure how to feel about this given the operator. NNSA flew out of Nellis AFB around noon

Never seen JANET flying so far south off Nevada. (Other than to the Boeing plant)

Did a nice bank over my house likely waiting for TSTR74 (168249) to get out of the way. Plane sounds almost fighter-ish when performing such a maneuver at low altitude!

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Hello
I was looking into the AF934 diverted flight from yesterday
Here is FR24 https://www.flightradar24.com/data/flights/af934#37d408ff
and here is ASDBx https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=3949f9&lat=36.100&lon=3.698&zoom=3.7&showTrace=2024-11-03&leg=2
of this flight

The flight was supposedly diverted back to Paris after a "luminous object" was supposedly spotted by the crew (various sources + official AF statement).

On both tracks we can see that there's an ADS-B data gap between 12:49:59 Z and 13:39:59 Z
Which means the plane was going south-east, north of Egypt, and 50 minutes later it appears back on sensors going north-west after turning back.

1 civilian source on board states that they were close to Sudan when they turned back, due to the sighting of a luminous object, that was qualified as a missile by the civilian source (Siteny Randrianasoloniaiko, on his FB page). The fact that the plane was located near Sudan airspace is not publicly verified yet.

Does anybody knows why a commercial flight would turn their ADSB off when usual planes do not in this area ?
Or is it a gap in data measurement of ADS-B frames ? Which would be a pretty coincidence at that place at that time, for this flight.

Of course no tracking system records every plane on every place on earth, but this area is usually pretty well covered by most platforms...

I was just looking for the turning data, but there is none :)

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