pliw's SDR SpyServer
This website contains links to interesting data being collected by pliw. The data collected includes:
Aircraft data: ADSB/UAT, ACARS/VDL-M2/JAERO/HFDL/Iridium/Inmarsat, Airband (audio)
Marine Traffic data: AIS, STD-C, Marine Band (audio)
Other/Miscellaneous data: VRS, Radiosonde, Background radiation, Grafana dashboard, OpenWebRX+, TinyGS
Planecaster (Youtube)
Expand the headers below to see the contents
Visitor maps (includes traffic to all pliw.co.uk web pages): all - rejected/filtered - accepted/allowed
ADSB
ADSB = 1090MHz ~1 second position update
ADSB Receiver Performance Graphs Graphs for readsb / dump1090-fa / dump1090 (based on dump1090-tools by mutability)
tar1090 ADS-B Map Live Aircraft Data shown on a map
tar1090 Tracks Tracks of data received during the last 24 hours on a map
tar1090 Heatmap Heatmap of data received during the last 24 hours on a map
tar1090 Timelapse Timelapse map of the last 24 hours
ADSB Grafana Dashboard Analytics platform for ADSB DATA
ADSBHub ADS-B ADS-B data sharing and exchange
SkyAware (FlightAware) See real-time nearby flights displayed on a personal radar-like interface
FA PiAware Feeder Status Information to determine if receiver is functioning properly
FlightAware Feeder Home Page FA statistics reflect ADS-B feeder site
Plane Finder A leader and trusted source of precision live flight tracking data
Plane Watch A group of aviation enthusiasts dedicated to ADS-B and plane tracking technologies
RadarBox A flight tracking company that displays aircraft & flight information in real-time on a map
Radar Virtuel Live air traffic localization around the world
ADSBExchange "Anywhere" Station Map Anywhere Station Map
ADSBExchange "Anywhere" Station Stats Anywhere Station Stats
ADS-B Exchange Feeder Traffic Light Internal Network Only
Plane-Alert Watchdog for Special Aircraft
PlaneFence All Planes Close To This Location
FlightRadar24 Server Stats Requires Account Login
FlightRadar24 Feeder Stats Internal only
Plane.Watch Feeder Status Requires Account Login
Flight Air Map Real or virtual flights are displayed in real-time on a 2D or 3D map
PlaneFinder 3D mode can be slow
VRS Virtual Radar Server
ACARS/VDL-M2
ACARS/VDL2 = 129Mhz to 136MHz ACARS data, To/from aircraft, Variable update rate, Quasi position data
ACARS/VDLM2 aircraft data Live monitoring view/stream ACARS/VDLM2 aircraft DATA transmissions.
Iridium
Iridium = 1.6GHz Aircraft to ground, Variable update rate, Quasi position data
Iridium Live Live Map coverage of the 48 beams from passing Sats over my location
HFDL
HFDL = ~3Mhz to ~21MHz, To/from aircraft, Variable update, Quasi position data.
L-Band
L-Band = 1.5GHz Ground to aircraft, Variable update rate, Position data
AIS (Marine Traffic)
AIS = 161.975 MHz & 162.025 MHz AIS data, From vessel, Variable update rate, Position data
AIS Ships Receiver (aggregate channels AB+CD) Open-source initiative high-performance AIS receiver with affordable, general-purpose radio receivers like the RTL-SDR
AIS Ships Receiver (channels AB only) AIS channels AB only
AIS Ships Receiver (channels CD only) AIS channels CD only
AIS Grafana Dashboard Analytics platform for AIS DATA
ShipXplorer status page ShipXplorer is a vessel tracking website that tracks global vessel movements in real-time
Miscellaneous (VRS, Radiosonde, Background radiation, Grafana dashboard, OpenWebRX+, TinyGS)
VRS Virtual Radar Server
RadioSonde Automatically Track Radiosonde Launches using RTLSDR
TinyGS TinyGS is an open network of Ground Stations distributed around the world to receive and operate LoRa satellites, weather probes and other flying objects, using cheap and versatile modules.
OpenWebRX+ OpenWebRX is a multi-user SDR receiver
Background Radiation Monitor Geiger Counter
ADSB Grafana Dashboard Analytics platform for ADSB DATA
AIS Grafana Dashboard Analytics platform for AIS DATA
Planecaster (Youtube)
Planecaster Youtube Danny has asked Pete to join a live stream and he’s now part of the Planecaster furniture. PLIW is supplying actual live aircraft data on-screen for aircraft within range of the airport which perfectly accompany the live stream. I guess this is the result when 2 tec heads get together over coffee. Please pay Danny's channel a visit. Hit that subscribe button, and the bell to never miss an epic stream.
Project Updates
02/05/2024 - Made a change to the ADSB Receiver Performance Graphs, have made all graphs large. ADSB Receiver Performance Graphs Here
01/05/2024 - Had to reboot the system to deploy a new Linux Kernel version. Before the reboot uptime was : up 10 weeks, 1 day, 13 hours, 28 minutes. I also ran a stack to update and deploy all directories with a docker-compose file.
29/04/2024 - I've made changes to the Acarshub Alerts field in the hopes of recording additional custom messages sent. Acarshub Alers Here
26/04/2024 - The VDLM2 SDR has failed. A spare new dongle was installed and DATA is now being received.
09/04/2024 - Installed NoiseCapt and a USB Lavalier Microphone to the setup. NoiseCapt captures audio levels around my station, and creates a graph of the audio levels and a spectrogram for each entry in Planefence. A 5 seconds sound clip is also recorded for playback. Still tweaking the best location for the microphone, wind noise is a issue. Planefence Here
11/03/2024 - Added VRS (Virtual Radar Server) to the server and site. VRS Here
09/03/2024 - Added TinyGS to the site. TinyGS Here
07/03/204 - Replacement AIS AB Dongle is fully stable so far. Looks to be a faulty dongle, now to go test it.
06/03/2024 - Few little updates to the site, layout, content and context.
05/03/2024 - The AIS Dongle, AB has been lost from the system. On investigation the powered USB hub wasn't showing as power or DATA for the port that this is connected to. Unplug/replug has resolved the issue.
EDIT 1: Sadly this was short lived as the issues has reappeared.
EDIT 2: A new fresh dongle has been installed and now testing (running live system) is underway, fingers crossed it's resolved. This page should load if eveything is working
28/02/2024 - The Trigkey G4 (mini pc) that is running the Iridium decoding has been subject of some benchmarking testing by Loather_of_the_Hill_People from the SDR Enthusiasts Discord group. This is all about the max performance to be achieved. Normal service has been restored.
24/02/2024 - New website for pliw, thought it was about time I made this a little more presentable. Oh and use Google to host it :)
System Specs
Main Server/Site
Dell Optiplex 3080 - Intel i5 10500T. 16GB DDR4, 256GB SSD
Dietpi OS
StarTech ST4300USBM 4-Port Industrial USB 3.0 Hub X2
Nooelec RTL-SDR v5 SDR x7
Iridium machine
Trigkey G4 (mini PC) - N100, 16G DDR4, 500G SSD
Airspy Mini R2
Background Radiation Monitor Geiger Counter
Raspberry Pi 3B+
Dietpi OS
Geiger Counter Module
TinyGS
LILYGO TTGO Lora ESP32 433mhz
Antennas
Tallysman Wireless Inc 33-HC610-28
ADSB Collinear
Radiosonde Flowerpot
Ceecom Airscan Groundplane
Diamond X50
MLA30+
AIS Flowerpot
Pizza Helix
Contact & Support
Discord Chat Server ''SDR Enthusiasts'' lots of highly knowledgeable people on channel #adsb-containers
Email Me pete (at) pliw (dot) co (dot) uk with any questions on hardware or software
Software provided under several Open Source licenses, including Gnu Public License GPL Version 2, Gnu Public License GPL Version 3, and the MIT license. Which provides no warranty whatsoever
Legalese
Copyright
Copyright (C) 2015-2024, Pete Wright (pliw)
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