Get eyes in the sky with your Raspberry Pi

Re:Get eyes in the sky with your Raspberry Pi by privong on Monday July 17, 2017 @03:13PM (#14791470)

> Surely we can come up with something more interesting and potentially discovery-orientated, or at least a little more awesome, such as perhaps radio astronomy or somesuch?

There are a many examples of other things that people have come up with. head over to http://www.rtl-sdr.com/ and the "Tutorials" section (under "Featured Articles") includes these:

* ADS-B Aircraft Radar

* NOAA Weather Satellites

* Meteor-M Weather Satellites

* P25 Digital Voice Decoding

* Trunked Radio Following

* TETRA Voice Decoding

* ACARS Decoding

* DRM Radio Decoding

* AIS Ship Tracking

* Radio Astronomy

* POCSAG Pager Decoding

* Decoding Weather Balloons

* Analyzing GSM Signals

* Measuring Filter Characteristics

* Inmarsat STD-C NCS EGC Decoding

* Outernet

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Re:Get eyes in the sky with your Raspberry Pi by alexellisuk on Monday July 17, 2017 @03:52PM (#14791809)

I tried building the ACARS Decoding code actually and was just getting segfaults. I need to go back to that at some point and raise a Github issue.

Very good list of applications above!

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