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Software defined radio is something which is pretty new to me, having just
discovered it the other day while trying to figure ways to get airport arrival
and departure times, for free, from a reliable source without having to result
to scraping.

It seems that people use these cheap SDRs with rpis or their computers to pick
up location information from passing aircraft and feed it to various flight
tracking sites to help increase their accuracy. In return, many of these sites
will have you additional benefits above the basics and a few, FlightAware, for
example will give feeders a $89pm business account for free.

After installing mine today, I've been getting signals from aircraft 40,000ft
in the sky and about a 45 mile radius, which is pretty good considering the
small antenna provided is sitting on my desk. They recommend being outside
with a clear view.

I know this isn't exactly HAM related, but since an SDR can pick up signals on
the bands we use, it fits!

I was wondering if anyone else has used SDR for any fun projects that they'd
like to share. I'm always interested in new ideas.
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