NAME

       rtl_adsb - a simple ADS-B decoder

DESCRIPTION

       Uses  a  re-purposed DVB-T receiver as a software defined radio to receive and decode ADS-B data. Written
       by Kyle Keen and incorporated in the osmocom rtl-sdr project.

       Automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast, ADS-B, consists of position and other status data transmitted
       by aircraft in support of air traffic control in order to improve safety of flight.

       Much software is available for the RTL2832. Most of the user-level packages rely on the librtlsdr library
       which comes as part of the rtl-sdr codebase. This codebase contains both the library itself  and  also  a
       number of command line tools such as rtl_test, rtl_sdr, rtl_tcp, and rtl_fm. These command line tools use
       the  library to test for the existence of RTL2832 devices and to perform basic data transfer functions to
       and from the device.

       Because most of the RTL2832 devices are connected using USB, the librtlsdr library depends on the  libusb
       library to communicate with the device.

USAGE

       With  a suitable antenna for receiving the 1090 MHz signal attached to the rtl-sdr supported device, this
       program will output the data decoded from that signal.

SYNOPSIS

       rtl_adsb [-R] [-g gain] [-p ppm] [output file]

OPTIONS

       -d device_index (default: 0)

       -V verbove output (default: off)

       -S show short frames (default: off)

       -Q quality (0: no sanity checks, 0.5: half bit, 1: one bit (default), 2: two bits)

       -e allowed_errors (default: 5)

       -g tuner_gain (default: automatic)

       -p ppm_error (default: 0)

       tfilename
               (a '-' dumps samples to stdout)
               (omitting the filename also uses stdout)

EXAMPLES

       Streaming with netcat:
                rtl_adsb | netcat -lp 8080

                while true; do rtl_adsb | nc -lp 8080; done

       Streaming with socat:
                rtl_adsb | socat -u - TCP4:sdrsharp.com:47806

SEE ALSO

       RTL-SDR wiki documentation: http://sdr.osmocom.org/trac/wiki/rtl-sdr

       Other rtl-sdr programs:

       rtl_eeprom(1), rtl_fm(1), rtl_sdr(1), rtl_tcp(1), rtl_test(1)

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by Maitland Bottoms for the Debian project (but may be used by others).

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (c) 2013 A. Maitland Bottoms <bottoms@debian.org>

       This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify  it  under  the  terms  of  the  GNU
       General  Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 2 of the License, or
       (at your option) any later version.

       This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY  WARRANTY;  without  even
       the  implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public
       License for more details.

RTL-SDR                                               0.5.0                                          rtl_adsb(1)