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Portable ADSB Receiver with GPS
I have been running an ADSB receiver for a couple of years now, feeding FlightAware and Flight Radar 24 before I discovered the OARC ADSB map. I also have a camper van, and I got to thinking it might be quite fun to track planes when I'm parked up somewhere, just to fill in the gaps on the OARC map even if only for a few days. This should be straightforward; the only catch is you need to set the location of the receiever each time for the MLAT feed to work properly. The obvious solution to that is a USB GPS dongle and some startup scripts that set the location before the feeders start - easy, right?
The basics really were easy, but getting it all to work together, and in a case, took a number of false starts and a box full of adapters I ended up not using 
Bill of Materials
- Raspberry Pi Zero W
- From the junk box
- connecting wire
- latching and non latching push switches
- rubber feet