Finally, after many months of downtime due to a thunderstorm that actually fried most of the pcb's, the ADSB receiver is back online.
Feeding to fr24.com and Flightaware it only takes an underutilized ARM SBC and a USB HUB that costs more than the SBC to decode all this information and transport it to the community network.
A few years ago it all sounded unfeasible, but economies of scale made their miracle and the major expense has moved from electronics to aerials. Indeed the antennas, box and mast cost way more than the actual SDR decoding device.
Feeding to fr24.com and Flightaware it only takes an underutilized ARM SBC and a USB HUB that costs more than the SBC to decode all this information and transport it to the community network.
A few years ago it all sounded unfeasible, but economies of scale made their miracle and the major expense has moved from electronics to aerials. Indeed the antennas, box and mast cost way more than the actual SDR decoding device.
