I tried to do this years ago while working at TV station with a helicopter and despite owning (well, leasing) the chopper and owning the microwave equipment the vendor would not release a way to decode the lat/long data used to track the video antenna, which I wanted to pull into a google map to show the choppers position.

So instead I gave the pilot an early smartphone (this was 2006) set up to use cellular to send back lat/long data and pulled it in that way, resulting in this:

https://techcrunch.com/2008/05/16/become-a-virtual-newscopte...