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DragonOS Noble: Real-Time HFDL Aircraft Monitoring with dumphfdl & Grafana

Back on DragonOS Noble, retesting some classic applications — this time focusing on dumphfdl, an open-source HF Data Link (HFDL) decoder already included in DragonOS.

In this video, I show how ...to receive long-range aircraft data using the Airspy HF+, explain frequency and sample rate choices, and then connect dumphfdl’s JSON and StatsD outputs into Grafana using my new Docker stack.

📡 So what’s the point?
This setup turns raw HF aircraft traffic into a real-time observability dashboard, giving you insights into HFDL ground stations, aircraft messages, and signal metrics — all running locally on DragonOS.

🧩 Project Links:
- dumphfdl-grafana-stack (Docker + Grafana setup):
👉 https://github.com/alphafox02/dumphfdl-grafana-stack

- dumphfdl decoder (included in DragonOS):
👉 https://github.com/szpajder/dumphfdl

Hardware used:
- Airspy HF+ Discovery
- YouLoop HF antenna tuned for 8–11 MHz range

Software:
- DragonOS Noble (includes dumphfdl)
- Docker stack with Graphite, Loki, Promtail, and Grafana

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