Re: What you can hear at Davos... With RTL-SDR

It's probably a lot easier to get up and running with dump1090: https://github.com/antirez/dump1090 . Just start it up with the -net flag (or --net?), and it will start a web server on port 8080 by default. It uses Google Maps for the slippy map, which may or may not meet your needs. On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 2:04 AM Konstantin Kowaiski < konstantin@digithinkit.com> wrote:

Is there any good tutorials on how to set up GNU Radio with ADS? I'm a C++/python hacker, and got the RTL dongle, but i feel like fish out of water with radio and signal stuff. On Jan 28, 2016 1:38 AM, "grarpamp" wrote:

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http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/16/01/27/1654246/collecting-private-fligh...

http://qz.com/600590/we-brought-an-antenna-to-davos-to-track-private-air-tra...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_dependent_surveillance_%E2%80%93_bro... http://bit.do/RTL-SDR-and-GNU-Radio-with-Realtek-RTL2832U

Every year politicians and business men meet at the World Economic Forum in the small mountain town of Davos, Switzerland to discuss various topics and create business deals. This year Quartz, an online newspaper/magazine sent a journalist to the forum tasked with writing a unconventional story about the forum: he was asked to monitor the private helicopter traffic coming in and out of Davos from transponder broadcast of ADS-B data. Using an $20 RTL-SDR dongle, Raspberry Pi and ADS-B collinear antenna they monitored the flights over Davos. From the data they were able to determine the flight paths that many helicopters took, the types of helicopters used and the most popular flight times.