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Build your own network ADS-B receiver with PiAware from FlightAware for under $100
You can build and run your own ADS-B ground station to be installed anywhere and receive real-time data directly from airplanes that you can view locally and also integrate with FlightAware. For about USD$100/EUR€80, your ground station can run PiAware to track flights within 100-300 miles (line of sight, range depending on antenna installation) and will automatically feed data to FlightAware. (flightaware.com) Más...You can buy the pre-assembled Raspberry Pi kits on ebay for about 50.00 including shipping. Just search Raspberry PI on ebay
Does this receive ADS-B on the 978Mhz freq? In my plane, I have a UAT running on that Freq, and I'm unsure if the systems pick up 1090Mhz or 978Mhz, but I'm really hoping that people participate using 978.
PiAware only does 1090MHz, not UAT/978MHz.
Wait... Isn't this the same setup that they were giving away a couple of months ago??? I guess that they figured they could make a quick buck (or a few thousand) off of people's enthusiasm. After all, it does help flightaware immensely by streaming data to their servers.
Admittedly, I do have a high bandwidth internet connection at home, so the 2 downloads (OS and Imager) were less than 5 minutes while downloading simultaneously).
Very cool.