Turn Your Feeder Into an Aircraft Intelligence Node
Live route data, full API access, real-time coverage stats. Free for all feeders. 60-second install.
Rare data from your own sky
Read engine reports, ACMS, OOOI and weather that the aircraft overhead are broadcasting. This is the signal enthusiasts chase, and it is on the same rooftop you already feed from.
Read engine reports, ACMS, OOOI and weather that the aircraft overhead are broadcasting. This is the signal enthusiasts chase, and it is on the same rooftop you already feed from.
Free API access
Full access to the ADSBiq aviation-intelligence API (generous feeder rate limits) for the datalink messages from your own sky.
Full access to the ADSBiq aviation-intelligence API (generous feeder rate limits) for the datalink messages from your own sky.
Founding VDL2 feeder
Recognised as an early VDL2 feeder, a spot on the coverage leaderboard, and a personal stats dashboard (ADS-B + VDL2). Your exact location is never shown publicly.
Recognised as an early VDL2 feeder, a spot on the coverage leaderboard, and a personal stats dashboard (ADS-B + VDL2). Your exact location is never shown publicly.
Capture-twice resilience
Keep feeding airframes alongside us and your VDL2 reaches ADSBiq by two independent paths. Real redundancy, the kind that survives a relay outage.
Keep feeding airframes alongside us and your VDL2 reaches ADSBiq by two independent paths. Real redundancy, the kind that survives a relay outage.
🛰️ VDL2 — 136 MHz Aircraft Datalink start here — our priority
Feed VDL2 — decode what aircraft are saying NEW
Read engine reports, OOOI times and weather from your own sky. About five minutes to set up; you supply one dongle and a 136 MHz antenna.
Have one dongle? Feed VDL2 — decode what aircraft are actually saying (engine reports, OOOI times, positions, weather). It needs its own ~54–55 cm 136 MHz antenna; your ADS-B antenna will not work for it.
Set up VDL2 →📡 Also feed ADS-B (1090 MHz positions)? That's our sister site, adsbiq.com ↗
What you need (you supply it)
- A second RTL-SDR dongle (your first is busy on 1090 MHz ADS-B). Any RTL-SDR v3/v4 works.
- A VHF antenna for ~136 MHz and an SMA cable. A simple quarter-wave or a window mag-mount is enough to start.
- One spare USB port and about five minutes.
Feeding ADS-B (1090 MHz positions) instead? See adsbiq.com ↗
Uninstall
To completely remove the feeder from your receiver:
curl -sL vdliq.com/uninstall.sh | sudo bash