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Nice app and writeup - but she won't have a radar - she'll have an app that displays the positions of airplanes. A true radar needs to transmit and receive. Th
by RachelF 3y ago
Nice app and writeup - but she won't have a radar - she'll have an app that displays the positions of airplanes. A true radar needs to transmit and receive.
The SDR is still just listening to the telemetry from the plane, which they transmit all the time for this ADS mode.
- empyrrhicist 3y agoYou can have passive radar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive_radar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive_radar But yes, it needs to be doing more than receiving telemetry to qualify, and there has to be something transmitting.
- jakey_bakey 3y agoTIL what a radar is :)