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This week on Counting Stuff, using a cheap USB dongle and antenna to catch ads-b signals from airplanes going by and then decide and analyze the data #dataBS www.counting-stuff.com/counting-the...

counting-stuff.comCounting the planes overheadThrough the magic of RADIO WAVES~~~~

4/11/25, 3:22 pm4 reposts8 likes

This is cool as hell

and it's so relatively inexpensive to do!

Adam Faris

@af9.us

5 Nov 2025

Earlier this week I downloaded dump1090 to see what's overhead. Talk about great timing to see this post. :)

Randy Au

@randyau.com

5 Nov 2025

get outa my headddddd!!! 🤣

rmoff 🏃‍♂️🫖🥓

@rmoff.net

5 Nov 2025

nice! You should check out what @saubury.bsky.social has done with this data too: simon-aubury.medium.com/when-plans-c...

simon-aubury.medium.comWhen plans change at 500 feet: Complex event processing of ADS-B aviation data with Apache FlinkUsing open-source Apache Flink stream processing to process real time aviation data to find missed approaches and paired runway landings…

Randy Au

@randyau.com

5 Nov 2025

ooo that's cool!