GlynneH Posted September 4, 2014 Share Posted September 4, 2014 Hi, I've just built a ADS-B Raspberry Pi receiver/server powered by a USB battery pack. I also made it an homebrew 1090Mhz half-wave dipole antenna. The results are great and can run for about 4 hours with the current battery. Anyway, have a look at the blog. I'm interested if anyone else has done something similar. http://glynne-bashbashbash.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/homebrew-1090-ads-b-raspberry-pi-remote.html The only thing missing to increase performance is some Hak5 stickers :-) Regards Glynne Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooper Posted September 5, 2014 Share Posted September 5, 2014 It's a bit of a hack job and I'm wondering why you even need so much of a boom for it. I doubt it makes that much difference. With a smaller boom you can put your antenna closer to the radio so you get even less signal loss from the cable. Also, you could place the jug on top of a shed or something if you really do need the height. Maybe put a layer of sand in the jug to weigh it down a bit so it sits a bit more stable. Still, top marks for effort and of course using scraps and what effectively amounts to garbage to create something useful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mauiredman Posted January 9, 2015 Share Posted January 9, 2015 Nice, It's Great Use what you got. I'm going to use and old Dish networks dish. Great Job I working on some thing like that but I live on Maui in hawaii. So I going to track Ships. Keep up the beautiful hacks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xeon Posted December 16, 2015 Share Posted December 16, 2015 V nice. I make someone similar with RPi, rtl-sdr, homebrew 1090Mhz half-dipole and dump1090. I was feeding flightrader24.com with data for about 6 months before I found another use for the pi. Love to see these homebrew jobs :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mad Pierre Posted December 16, 2015 Share Posted December 16, 2015 (edited) What Battery are you using. I've got a 1.3 Ah SLA Battery from maplins, that last for around 3.5 hour's. On a Pi 2 Running flat out on Crunch/Aircrack. At a Guess that be more like 6 hur's ticking over. Run a Pi, and ADS-B. Also I just use a Car cig power adapter to power the pi, via the battery. Simple and cheap. Edited December 16, 2015 by Mad Pierre Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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