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A few years ago, I came across this awesome talk by Thomas Watson in which he talks about how he built AirplaneJS, a web app that picks up ADS-B radio signals from airplanes and plots them in real time on a map in the browser. I had no idea this was possible in JavaScript so I started looking into it.
Once these steps execute successfully, the device should be connected. Now, the frequency and sample rate need to be set. For this, I relied on the awesome rtlsdrjs library by Sandeep Mistry. If you decide to use it to create a similar project, I used 1090000000 as the frequency (for 1090MHz) and 2000000 as the sample rate.
Check out the repo if you want.
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Radio receiver