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3 HN users recommended this between 2019 and 2021, in 3 comments.
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You can still get pretty far with an RTL-SDR attached to them, which can be had for $25. I have successfully debugged radiated EMI issues with the combination of these two:
https://www.amazon.com/seeed-Studio-RF-Explorer-Antenna/dp/B...
https://www.amazon.com/RTL-SDR-Blog-RTL2832U-Software-Define...
The dongle is what’s monitoring the traffic. You can get one on Amazon for $25. Here’s mine: https://www.amazon.com/RTL-SDR-Blog-RTL2832U-Software-Define...
I use airplanejs to display the airplanes overhead: https://github.com/watson/airplanejs
There’s a ton of other interesting stuff you can do with the dongle, too. Here’s a great place to start: https://luaradio.io/new-to-sdr.html
A SDR + some sort of "stream deck" from the parent article could be a potential "offline" solution. You could even wire a couple mechanical keyboard switches to Rpi's GPIO pins for selecting preset channels and avoid the stream-thingy all together.
RTL-SDR: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0129EBDS2
https://github.com/pothosware/SoapySDR/wiki/PythonSupport