Radio location services are used in many places including those monitored at the GCARC clubhouse. Currently we have an APRS station that monitors amateur radio APRS traffic as well as beaconing the current weather recorded by the clubhouse weather station. We also have an ADS-B aircraft monitoring station that receives broadcasts on 1090 megahertz from […]
“So now that we have a weather station at the clubhouse, why aren’t we broadcasting real-time weather thru APRS?” said John Zaruba K2ZA one day, signaling the start of another GCARC Skunkworks project. The weather station (a topic for another article) was up and running and its output could be viewed from a web server […]
Many aircraft today carry ADS-B beacons that transmit their location along with other identifying information. This is transmitted on 1090 mhz and can be decoded by an SDR radio and software on a Raspberry Pi computer. The team at FlightAware uses this data for aircraft tracking and displays it on an annotated map that’s accessed […]
