Re:My toddler loves planes, so I built her a radar
by filterfiber on Monday November 27, 2023 @03:07PM
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> That's incredible, whats the catch!?
They prioritize low-coverage areas (no idea how generous they are for covered areas).
Nearly all of their position data is from these receivers, so you're providing them with more coverage/redundancy for the plane positions.
The hardware is relatively cheap (under 50$) and I don't imagine the business tier costs them much money.
> I reckon if I shelled out for a business plan I could start doing some simple stuff with free tier / extra paid features
You don't need to they'll give it to you for free.
sidenote: You can build your own with an rtl-sdr and a raspberry pi/cheap computer. If you do this you can forward the data to all of the commercial sites for the free perks, and to all of the community sites.
They prioritize low-coverage areas (no idea how generous they are for covered areas).
Nearly all of their position data is from these receivers, so you're providing them with more coverage/redundancy for the plane positions.
The hardware is relatively cheap (under 50$) and I don't imagine the business tier costs them much money.
> I reckon if I shelled out for a business plan I could start doing some simple stuff with free tier / extra paid features
You don't need to they'll give it to you for free.
sidenote: You can build your own with an rtl-sdr and a raspberry pi/cheap computer. If you do this you can forward the data to all of the commercial sites for the free perks, and to all of the community sites.