Automatic dependent surveillance–broadcast (ADS B)

With this app you can receive real-time ADS-B used for air traffic control.

Functionality

Select a received aircraft and more detail will be shown. Select "Show on map" to see the aircraft location. ADS-B operates on 978 to 1090 MHz. Even a short antenna attached directly to the Portapack will receive ADS-B when the receive preamp is enabled ("1" displayed).

Map

For map functionality a world map must be loaded on the SD card. The map image and other SD card content is available from the portapack-mayhem github download page.

Airlines

Log into microSD

The ADSB RX app will log each frame including the following columns:

• (YEAR MONTH DAY HOUR MIN SEC)
• (RAW PACKET IN HEX)
• ICAO: (ICAO)
• (CALLSIGN)
• Alt: (ALTITUDE)
• Lat: (LATITUDE)
• Lon: (LONGITUDE)

Example:

20171103100227 8DADBEEFDEADBEEFDEADBEEFDEADBEEF ICAO:nnnnnn callsign Alt:nnnnnn Latnnn.nn Lonnnn.nn