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I highly recommend not relying on SDR ADS-B reception alone and also checking online data systems for ADS-B that also use multilateration to track aircraft using their transponder when they aren’t ADS-B capable. Otherwise you might be operating under the assumption there are no contacts in your working airspace when there is aircraft present but not announcing their location.

https://flightaware.com/adsb/mlat/



You need both data sources—a number of planes are “delisted” from the commercial trackers and won’t show up, but they still broadcast ADS-B. You can find partial lists of such registrations through a keen Google search.


https://www.adsbexchange.com/ does not blacklist or delist aircraft tail numbers fwiw.


Sounds like a good idea. Thanks for the suggestion.


Hope it helps.




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