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

[Konstantin Kowaiski]

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" <grarpamp at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/16/01/27/1654246/collecting-private-flight-data-on-the-world-economic-forum-attendees-with-rtl-sdr
>
> http://qz.com/600590/we-brought-an-antenna-to-davos-to-track-private-air-travel-and-heres-what-we-found/
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_dependent_surveillance_%E2%80%93_broadcast
> 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.
>
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