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rtlsdr[1] is the name of the project that lets you use your $10 USB TV tuner as a software defined radio receiver (bless those osmocom people). rtl-sdr.com[2] has some more information.

dump1090[3] is the particular project for decoding ADS-B broadcasts.

With £15 of equipment (USB Tuner and some TV coax hacked into an antenna) I'm looking at aircraft 200+nm away [4] (though today's weather doesn't help).

[1] http://sdr.osmocom.org/trac/wiki/rtl-sdr [2] http://www.rtl-sdr.com/ [3] https://github.com/antirez/dump1090 [4] http://i.imgur.com/jncyTIe.png



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