SMYCK

a blog by John-Paul Bader

Improved ADS-B Toolchain

Posted on January 29, 2026 by hukl

After my recent post I did not stop tinkering and exploring. To my own surprise it didn’t take long to come across significant improvements to my toolchain. Someone contacted me on mastodon shortly after and said that a friend of his had also recently gotten into SDRs and ADS-B and decided to write his on […]

My minimal ADS-B Tracking Setup

Posted on January 26, 2026 by hukl

For a while I was somewhat interested in playing around with a Software Defined Radio (SDR). Recently I bought myself an entry level SDR and started exploring. One of the first things I was interested in was receiving and tracking ADS-B data. This is a specific radio transmission used by aircraft to broadcast positional data, […]