Going to geek out again. Skip if it’s not your jam…

With a little bit of tech gear, you can capture the radio traffic aircraft send to broadcast their position (ADS-B). It allows a real-time glimpse into the air traffic around you. The data can be viewed as well as fed up to services like flightaware.com.

It’s basically wardriving, but without having to drive.

All you need is a Raspberry Pi, a software defined radio (USB flavored), and an antenna. Ideally, line of site is preferred. To protect the gear from the elements, I’m going to leave it inside which seems to perform alright for capturing LGA traffic and some of the JFK traffic. Range appears to be 50-100 miles.

If you’re curious, here’s a link to my station: http://www.rsb0.com/dump1090/gmap.html