ADS-B Scanning in New York?

Anyone else scanning/reporting ADS-B aircraft positioning data for FlightAware, FlightRadar24 sites? Slightly off topic but just trying to gauge local interest. I also scan local airports and related activities...

http://flightaware.com/adsb/stats/user/vannossc

Scott
N2ZYI

I have been serving ADS-B data to FlightRadar24 for over a year now. I'm 30 minutes south of KBUF (and unfortunately at the bottom of a valley which limits my range a bit). I originally had a MicroADSb receiver hooked to my CentOS IRLP server but have found the RTL/SDR had way better sensitivity and range so I now serve data to FR24 from a RTL/SDR hooked to a dedicated RaspberryPI via dump1080 and the FR24 linux feeder.

N2WLS

Raspberry PI ADS-B building instructions.
https://flightaware.com/adsb/piaware/build

Some live mode-s/ads-b east coast air traffic available on VRS-World.com

I also upload to FlightAware & all other sites.

I'm just north west of Albany in Saratoga County so I get quite a bit of fly by traffic it seems from Europe to east coast destinations. Been looking at this for a while and was almost ready to pull the triggeron a dedicated receiver but decided to give the $15 NooElec dongle a try. Using Dump1090 / PlanePlotter on an everyday laptop to get acquainted with how this all works. I'm feeding FA and FR24 but can't seem to get RadarBox working. FR24 is quirky too. I have a few Raspberry PIs laying around from previous endevours. I may make one up for work location (on final for KSCH - home of the C-130 polar treking Air Guard aircraft that's in the news every now and then).

Antenna improvement is my next step. I have my dongle connected to an all-band scanner antenna (multi-radial) up about 25ft. I'm hoping one of the radials is around 116 mm but whatever. I easily pull in aircraft from 150-200 nm. With a good collinear antenna (Coaxial Collinear Antenna for ADS-B) up on the roof I hope to get 200-250 with good message rates.

Dedicated laptop or Rpi is next. This software kills this laptop...

This is me

https://flightaware.com/adsb/stats/user/vannossc

The PlanePlotter network is supported by more hobbyists than the others. Some PP users also feed the other networks as secondary.

DaveNF2G said:

The PlanePlotter network is supported by more hobbyists than the others. Some PP users also feed the other networks as secondary.

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That's an understatement. There's seemingly dozens of forum sites with multiple PP experts with add-ons, etc. Excellent support but a lot of "noise" to work through. Rewarding when it all comes together.

I monitor ADS-B with an SDR R820T by NooElec using RTL1090. My antenna is the ADS-B Blade produced by DPD Productions. It far out performs the little antenna that came with the dongle. I currently do not feed any sites...

I have the indoor DPD blade in the attic and it is excellent! I have used the ANRB, MicroADSB, ModeS Beast, and RTL-SDR stick with DUMP1090. The Beast has been the best, although right now I have a port traffic jam problem with it. I think the computer it's on is just too slow for it.

I'm also building a non-sharing PP setup for mobile use around an all-SDR design, to include ADS-B, ACARS, HFDL and VDL-2.

My next big project will be a RPi- and Arduino-based direction finding array that will plot aircraft on a map during voice transmissions.