TRACKING SHIPS utilizing SOFTWARE-DEFINED RADIO (SDR)

When we very first started hearing about software-defined radio hacks (which commonly utilize USB dongles that sound it at under $20) we didn’t completely grasp the range of that flexibility. however now we’ve seen a number of real-life examples that drive the idea home. For instance, did you understand that SDR can be utilized to track ships? Ships big as well as little are needed by may countries to utilize an Automatic identification System (AIS) transponder. The protocol was originally established to prevent collisions on big ships, however when the expense of the hardware ended up being cost effective the system was likewise given smaller vessels.

[Carl] composed in to share his job (which is linked above). just like the authorities scanner job from April this makes utilize of RTL-SDR in the type of a TV tuner dongle. He utilizes the SDRSharp software application together with a Yagi-UDA. The caught data is then decoded as well as plotted on a map utilizing ShipPlotter.