[kwlug-disc] listening to the airport

[Colin Mackay]

Some good flight tracking maps:

Flightradar24 <https://www.flightradar24.com> - Live flight tracking
ADS-B Exchange <https://globe.adsbexchange.com/> - Crowdsourced
ADS-B tracking
NemoWX <https://nemowx.com/> - Used by small airports

Does your truck have Bluetooth, or an 3.5mm AUX input?

I haven't found many radios that also support Bluetooth, unfortunately.  I
tend to use LiveATC <https://www.liveatc.net/search/?icao=YKF> on my phone
and connect that to my car via BT.  Things like the RTL-SDR are great if
you have your laptop with you, then you can run one of the above mentioned
Linux distros.

*The 'Whip it up in one afternoon' playbook:*

On your tablet, use one of the above flight tracking maps.
On your phone (connected to your truck via Bluetooth), connect to LiveATC
<https://www.liveatc.net/search/?icao=YKF> and choose the HTML player for
'Tower'.


On Tue, May 26, 2026 at 12:33 PM CrankyOldBugger <crankyoldbugger at gmail.com>
wrote:

> This is going to be a very deep rabbit hole..  Thanks to everyone who
> offered advice so far.
>
> Ultimately, what I would consider the ultimate setup would be:
>
> being able to hear the tower<>pilots chatter,
> being able to pipe said chatter through the truck's stereo system for
> better audio quality,
> being able to watch the flights on a radar screen, either on a laptop or,
> even better, my tablet,
> so ultimately we could hear the pilots on the truck's audio, then point at
> a dot on the tablet and say "he's on THAT plane over there to the left"
>
> I have a feeling that I won't be able to whip this up in an afternoon...
> but you guys have answered some primary questions.  So thanks!
>
>
>
> On Tue, 26 May 2026 at 14:10, Khalid Baheyeldin <kb at 2bits.com> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, May 26, 2026 at 9:49 AM Khalid Baheyeldin <kb at 2bits.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> There used to be a Linux live CD that had everything bundled for RTL SDR.
>>> Things like: the identities of the planes are flying above, NOAA
>>> satellite images in real time, and much more.
>>> ...
>>> A quick search shows something called Dragon OS, but I don't remember
>>> that name as the one.
>>>
>>
>> Maybe it was SkyWave Linux
>> <https://sourceforge.net/projects/skywavelinux/>, but not sure.
>>
>> This is Dragon OS <https://sourceforge.net/projects/dragonos-focal/>.
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