Once you move away from the usual software defined radio (SDR) dongles, you have only a few choices unless you want to drop some serious cash. One common hobby-grade SDR is the KiwiSDR.
So he married a Raspberry Pi 3, a touchscreen, an RTL-SDR dongle, and an upconverter to make a very nice receiver setup. You can see the receiver in action below. The video is a little light on ...
A USB RTL-SDR dongle is used to retrieve flight information. Mitchell was kind enough to make the project open source and has shared information about how he's programmed the flight tracking ...