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Wondering if that helicopter hovering over the neighborhood is the news or law enforcement? Go to globe.adsbexchange.com/ . Zoom in on your location and find the track of the helicopter. Click the helicopter icon. That will give you the registration number and possibly the owner. In the US the registration will most likely start with an "N". You can search on that for even more info.
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Replied to AI6YR Ben

@ai6yr Huh, I've been running an #ADSB stack (dump1090-fa, piaware, feeder to adsbfi) for just over two years now, pretty much non-stop and my SD card is still doing fine without any special tricks to minimize writes.
I'm just using a SanDisk ultra 16GB which is ~30% full.

I had a cheap Staples brand card give up on me after just a few months when I ran a Zabbix monitoring server on it, but I think besides the bottom-of-the-barrel NAND-flash it was the round-robin files that killed it.

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NB: I am not sharing anything secret here. You can be certain that

1. Any #military flight with #ADSB enabled wants to be seen
2. No flight zones are closely monitored by state actors
3. Given that there's several military bases, EU space research, and one of the main locations for the military arm of #Airbus and their helicopter R&D in this area, state actors will have their eyes and ears open anyway