<div dir="ltr"><div>Some good flight tracking maps:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.flightradar24.com">Flightradar24</a> - Live flight tracking</div><a href="https://globe.adsbexchange.com/">ADS-B Exchange</a> - Crowdsourced ADS-B tracking<div><a href="https://nemowx.com/">NemoWX</a> - Used by small airports<br><br></div><div>Does your truck have Bluetooth, or an 3.5mm AUX input?<br><br></div><div>I haven't found many radios that also support Bluetooth, unfortunately. I tend to use <a href="https://www.liveatc.net/search/?icao=YKF">LiveATC</a> 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.<br><br></div><div><b>The 'Whip it up in one afternoon' playbook:</b></div><div><br></div><div>On your tablet, use one of the above flight tracking maps.</div><div>On your phone (connected to your truck via Bluetooth), connect to <a href="https://www.liveatc.net/search/?icao=YKF">LiveATC</a> and choose the HTML player for 'Tower'.</div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, May 26, 2026 at 12:33\u202fPM CrankyOldBugger <<a href="mailto:crankyoldbugger@gmail.com">crankyoldbugger@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>This is going to be a very deep rabbit hole.. Thanks to everyone who offered advice so far.</div><div><br></div><div>Ultimately, what I would consider the ultimate setup would be:</div><div><br></div><div>being able to hear the tower<>pilots chatter,</div><div>being able to pipe said chatter through the truck's stereo system for better audio quality,</div><div>being able to watch the flights on a radar screen, either on a laptop or, even better, my tablet,</div><div>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"</div><div><br></div><div>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!</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, 26 May 2026 at 14:10, Khalid Baheyeldin <<a href="mailto:kb@2bits.com" target="_blank">kb@2bits.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">On Tue, May 26, 2026 at 9:49\u202fAM Khalid Baheyeldin <<a href="mailto:kb@2bits.com" target="_blank">kb@2bits.com</a>> wrote:</div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br><div style="font-size:small">There used to be a Linux live CD that had everything bundled for RTL SDR.</div><div style="font-size:small">Things like: the identities of the planes are flying above, NOAA satellite images in real time, and much more. </div><div style="font-size:small"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">...</span></div><div style="font-size:small">A quick search shows something called Dragon OS, but I don't remember that name as the one.</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">Maybe it was <a href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/skywavelinux/" target="_blank">SkyWave Linux</a>, but not sure.</div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">This is <a href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/dragonos-focal/" target="_blank">Dragon OS</a>.</div></div></div>
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