Flightradar24 on Rusty Bowerhttps://www.rustybower.com/tags/flightradar24/Recent content in Flightradar24 on Rusty BowerHugo -- gohugo.ioen© Rusty BowerTue, 03 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000One SDR, Six Flight Trackers: Running an ADS-B Feeder on Kuberneteshttps://www.rustybower.com/posts/one-sdr-six-flight-trackers-ads-b-kubernetes/Tue, 03 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.rustybower.com/posts/one-sdr-six-flight-trackers-ads-b-kubernetes/<p>Aircraft broadcast their position, altitude, and callsign on 1090 MHz, unencrypted, about twice a second. A cheap RTL-SDR dongle can hear them. I plugged one into a NUC, pointed the output at my Kubernetes cluster, and two weeks later that one dongle feeds six flight tracking networks and a set of Home Assistant sensors.</p>