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Re:Mysterious Planes Over Baltimore Spark Surveillance Suspi... by rdtsc on Thursday May 07, 2015 @02:09PM (#9507066)
I have two of those dongles (there were abouto $10 each) and living by the airport don't even need a particularly good antena do dump ADS-B messages out to the console.
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Re:Mysterious Planes Over Baltimore Spark Surveillance Suspi... by tomswartz07 on Friday May 08, 2015 @09:48AM (#9511677)
Just on a whim, I stuck the little 6" whip antenna on the trunk of my car and plopped my laptop next to it, just to see what I'd get.

I was able to pick up flights taking off from DC, quite a good trip away. 100 miles?

Pretty awesome.

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