BSides Birmingham 2024

ADS-B On a budget
2024-10-12 , Ballroom D

A Talk about how to cheaply make an ADS-B rig to receive airplane locations and a free $500 a year subscription to flightradar24.com


In this talk I'll give a brief description of how to flash a raspberry pi 3b+ with the flight radar raspbian firmware, hook up an RTL-SDR, and a aliexpress / homebrew antenna with the intent of receiving 1090MHz signals that aircraft transmit with their location data, speed, altitude, destination, and home port. Submitting this data to Flightradar24.com also gives you a $500 a year business plan which lets you track aircraft globally, and gives you real time weather data from airports.


Talk Categories:

Technical

Seth brings over 20 years of diverse experience in the Information Technology sector. His career journey includes a hiatus for contracting and travel, broadening his expertise beyond the technical realm. Currently, he is employed as a Security Analyst at a manufacturing company within the Toyota group.

Outside of work, Seth is passionate about ham radio, cherishing moments with his family, and advocating for digital rights, personal freedom, self-sufficiency, and privacy.

He still plays with IRC bots.