I am using the Nooelec Nano3 purchased from Amazon.sg. I started with the first generation Pi B+ and the CPU is too old to deliver good performance.

Raspberry Pi – minimally a Raspberry Pi 2.You can refer to the Piaware official post for other details. Here are the things you’ll need, I’ll share my config. A Raspberry Pi running Piaware, and using a SDR dongle to receive the 1090MHz signals. These are not encrypted and anyone with a 1090MHz receiver can pick up those signals. The idea is that planes broadcast their details, location, etc. I discovered that it has a piece of software which we can run at home, and with the right pieces of hardware, will be helping to scan for planes and send the data to the main site.

This interest of mine developed as I’ve been using since around 2011.