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This popped up recently on rtl-sdr.com - https://www.rtl-sdr.com/building-a-raspberry-pi-based-ais-receiver-with-an-rtl-sdr-preamp-and-collinear-antenna/ https:
by jcims 6y ago
This popped up recently on rtl-sdr.com - https://www.rtl-sdr.com/building-a-raspberry-pi-based-ais-receiver-with-an-rtl-sdr-preamp-and-collinear-antenna/ https://www.rtl-sdr.com/building-a-raspberry-pi-based-ais-re...
Having a good antenna/filter/LNA is important and will likely put you in equivalent or better performance range than any personal-use grade commercial offering.
Do you recall what the major problem was at the time?
- lozaning 6y agoI've run this setup with an ADSB antenna on a cheapo rtlsdr while sitting on a pier and was amazed at how far out i was picking up ships from.
- wpietri 6y agoI definitely remember the software seeming terrible. Flaky, quirky, hard to wrangle. So much so that I couldn't tell if there were really also hardware problems. Since my goal was to have something that ran reliably for years without attention, and since proper AIS receivers at the time were only a couple hundred bucks, it quickly seemed that professional gear was a better ROI. And thanks for the link, I'll check that out. At first pass it requires me emailing somebody to get a link to their software image, which seems odd, but I may take a swing at it. Do you have a guess as to what software they're using?