hi ron,
i didn’t shoot myself in the food too hard when starting about 14 days ago.
here’s in short what you need:
what hardware you need (total costs below 90$):
- raspberry pi 2
- raspberry pi 2 housing
- raspberry pi 2 micro usb power supply 2A
- usb dvb-t dongle with antenna
- 8-32 gb micro sd-card class 10
- ethernet-cable (raspberry to your network)
what software/setup to use (all freeware):
- piaware disk image (ready to run incl. raspbian os)
http://flightaware.com/adsb/piaware/build
what improvements can be done (free of costs):
- shorten your antenna to 67mm length along abcd’s howto (10-20% better performance)
http://discussions.flightaware.com/ads-b-flight-tracking-f21/how-to-improve-performance-of-whip-antenna-of-dvb-t-t36000.html
what improvements can be done (costs about 60$):
- usb wifi dongle
- flightaware 1090mhz ads-b antenna - 66cm/26in
regards
tom