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I Built a Real-Time Radar with a $25 USB Stick ✈️

Every commercial airplane overhead is screaming its GPS position, altitude, speed, and callsign at 1090 MHz — unencrypted — for anyone to receive. I tuned in with my RTL-SDR and suddenly had my own live air traffic radar. FlightRadar24 doesn't know what I know.

Mar 06, 2026

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ADS-B: I'm Tracking Real Planes with a $20 USB Stick! ✈️📡

Forget FlightRadar24 subscriptions — I set up my own live aircraft tracker using a $20 RTL-SDR dongle and a Raspberry Pi. Now I watch every flight over my city on a real-time map I built myself. It's the most satisfying SDR project I've ever done, and it takes ONE afternoon!

Feb 19, 2026