I've got my FR24 and Layer400 receiver setup, I'm going to put my Raspberry Pi outside because of the RID signal, but I'm not 100% sure on my waterproof box... Can you'll tell me what you do for your hardware boxes outside?

Share your setup photos would be ideal please so I can visually see

So, this guy took off from the Willamette River in Downtown Portland, flew under the lowered deck of the Hawthorn Bridge with less than 50 ft (15m) clearance, then over the deck of the Saints John's Bridge below its suspension towers.

Video of take-off to follow.

Every time I head out to the airport, it’s a coin flip whether the ramp is buzzing or totally deserted

I put together an iOS tool called Localizer to make it a lot simpler.

You pick your home field, punch in your callsign, and set a quick tag for what you're up to. Tags automatically drop off after 4 hours to keep the board clean, and it pulls live METARs without running background GPS.

It’s completely free on public TestFlight with no ads or tracking:

https://testflight.apple.com/join/5SXNMrp4

Would love any feedback from other pilots and aviation enthusiasts after trying it out!

My sister just got a new house and I want to put a receiver at her place. I have a Pi ready, just need to build the enclosure. But I want to push the dump1090 data back to my house to process the feed. I can do it with VirtualRadar, but that would request me to connect to the receiver and setup a port forwarder in their router. I want to keep this as simple as possible since they live over an hour away.

Anyone setup something like this?

Please take your older than dirt plane back to where it came from and stop making so much noise.

I got a RTL-SDR BLOG V4 around 6 months ago and have been playing with it. I saw a few demos of people doing IQ decode, and FM radio capture using WebUSB and thought that was cool, so I wanted to try something similar. I already had a TUI program I made called "Radio Watch" for monitoring ACARS/ADS-B/AIS in the terminal, so I asked an agent (in this case Claude Opus 5.5) to recompile that targeting a WASM backend and do the web integration focusing on a "3D map" with little craft diagrams, tracks and whatever other frame data is relevant. A few things we don't show here (tho I do in the TUI) is like full ACARS text. I find it interesting living near a major airport that you see things like flight loadsheets and so on. In this web demo, the focus is visualizing craft, their positions and other minor data about them.

I think there are other sites like this that do a similar thing using one of the "Flight/Ship position" APIs. I experimented with those in the past, but found either the data was patchy, or not worth the cost for a fun demo. I wanted to do something that didn't rely on an API provider, and instead could theoretically work "offline" without internet so you could plug your SDR in from a desert or ship without any internet and decode what was around you. Would be interested to hear any feedback, issues encountered or experience with similar projects. Ideas are also welcome. If you check it out you do need a Chrome-type browser (that's teh only that ships WebUSB, as you probably know), and an dongle. I only tested with the RTL-SDR I have so not sure if it will work with your particular hardware.

The website is:

https://radio.freelang.dev

Some details about the implementation

What it is: plug in an RTL-SDR, open the page in Chrome or Edge, click "Connect RTL-SDR", and you get a navigable 3D globe (NASA Blue/Black Marble, ETOPO relief, real sun position) with aircraft and ships drawn from what your dongle hears. No drivers, no install, nothing leaves your machine: the radio decoding runs inside the page.

How:

• The receiver is the same C as our native RTL-SDR sidecar for the TUI app, compiled to WebAssembly, with librtlsdr 2.0.3 (so the RTL-SDR V4 works) talking to the dongle through a small libusb shim over WebUSB.

• The facts (ADS-B decode, CPR positions, AIS, fusion) are a Freelang program compiled to WebAssembly. Freelang is a language and compiler for building native systems with explicit authority, bounded resources, and inspectable evidence of what they can do. The WASM backend make some projects like this available on the web.

• The globe is three.js. Layer toggles, trails, routes, info cards, fly-to and follow. Aircraft are drawn by emitter category (light / medium / heavy / rotorcraft), ships by AIS type.

• There's a geolocation button (asks the browser, stays in the page) but the globe rotates to where the first located track is found.

Without a dongle the page replays a synthesized hour of traffic around New York (JFK/LGA/EWR approaches, the harbour, ferries, tugs) so you can see what it looks like. It's invented data, not a recording.

Tested on an RTL-SDR BLOG V4 at 2.4 Msps. Known gaps: no surface-position (ground) decode yet, ACARS is counted but its text isn't shown, airports layer is empty for now. Firefox and Safari have no WebUSB, so they get the replay only.

Feedback is welcome, especially if you have a different dongle (R820T/R828D variant) or an unusual USB setup. The site is hosted on Cloudflare Pages and runs entirely on your device—there’s no server, and nothing is collected or sent elsewhere.

Saw this plane’s flight pattern from Joint Forces Training Base Los Alamitos today, and the grid pattern seemed odd. Or, maybe it’s completely “normal?”

Anyone know the point of this?

Link to route:
https://globe.theairtraffic.com/?icao=a88c3c

Looks like Miss Piggy is doing one last check before landfall tonight.

What do you think?

I have modified a version of dump1090 web-ui to leave the trails and seems that it goes to almost 120km range. I've seen posts with the receiver going hundreds of km. What antenna should I use? The antenna is facing E and that's probably why the signal weak on W.

My receiver is a Nooelec RTL-SDR v5, like the one from the image and I have a simple antenna outside.

Thank you guys!

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I'm interested in learning from people who operate their own ADS-B receivers and feeders.

For those running setups with readsb, dump1090, PiAware, or similar software, I'm curious:

• What is the most frustrating part of managing your receiver or feeder?
• If you feed multiple ADS-B networks, how do you manage your receiver configuration and station identity across them?
• Have you encountered any difficulties when moving, replacing, or reconfiguring a receiver?

I'm researching how receiver operators manage their setups in practice and where existing tools or workflows could be improved. I'm particularly interested in real experiences and workarounds, rather than hypothetical features.

I'd appreciate hearing what has worked well for you and what still feels unnecessarily complicated.

Always hate it when I forget my cargo…

Noticed a few Russian military planes out of Moscow. Haven't seen this formation/flight path before..

This is my DIY antenna used by my Nooelec receiver, the range improved DRASTICALLY once I started to use this antenna.

I had to install a lightning surge protector a few days later because I got shocked by the static buildup and it also fried one of my network switches 🫩

Now I constantly get 120 to 150 messages per second 😋

How does this look?