Feeder Network
Your antenna,
everyone's sky.
Skydex is a browser flight game where players catch real aircraft with a radar scan. Every plane they catch is heard by a real ADS-B receiver — and it could be yours. Add one line to your feeder config and your station powers the game over your city.
adsb,feed.skydex.online,30004,beast_reduce_plus_out,uuid=<your-uuid>
No coverage over your city on the live map yet? That's not a gap — that's your slot. You'd be the first station there, and the first 20 feeding stations get permanent founding-feeder credit.
Why feed Skydex?
Your data becomes gameplay
Not another tracking website. When a player scans the sky over your coverage, the aircraft they catch, collect and show off came from your antenna. You can literally watch people play with your data.
Non-exclusive, like all community feeds
Keep feeding FR24, FlightAware, adsb.lol, airplanes.live and anyone else in parallel. Multi-feeding is the norm — Skydex is just one more line in your config.
Perks, not promises
Networks thank feeders with subscriptions; we thank feeders with the game — feeder badge, premium perks for uptime, unlimited scans under your own sky. The badge is live today; uptime counts from your first packet.
How to join — three minutes
🖥 On a Mac? Skip the Pi — the native Skydex Feeder app turns your Mac + an RTL-SDR stick into a station in two minutes. Menu bar app, decoder bundled, no terminal.
- Have a receiver running adsb.im, ultrafeeder or plain readsb. Starting from zero? A Raspberry Pi, a ~€40 SDR stick and an antenna by the window is a complete station — or a Mac with our app.
- Sign in at skydex.online/feed (free, Google) and hit Connect a receiver — you get a personal connector line with your uuid.
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Paste it into the
Custom aggregatorfield (adsb.im) or yourULTRAFEEDER_CONFIG, restart the feeder — your traffic shows on the live map within a minute.
💬 Questions, or your feed isn't showing? Ask in Discord — #feeders — a human answers. Quick self-checks are in the FAQ below.
What feeders get
| You do | You get |
|---|---|
| First packets received | 📡 Feeder badge on your Skydex profile — appears automatically once your first packets arrive LIVE |
| Receiver online most of the month | Premium in-game perks — extra radar scans and extra hangar refreshes (live "where is my caught aircraft now" position checks) SHIPS SEPTEMBER 2026 |
| Always | Unlimited radar scans in your own coverage — it's your data |
| Always | Your station on the public coverage map — and the first 20 stations that feed become Founding Feeders, with permanent credit on this page |
The deal, in plain words
- Free, voluntary, revocable. Remove the line, and you're out — no questions.
- Non-exclusive. We encourage feeding other networks in parallel.
- You grant a non-exclusive right to use your receiver's data in Skydex products (game, public pages, API).
- We never resell your raw feed. It powers the game, full stop.
- Your exact location is never published — coverage maps use rounded positions only.
- ADS-B is an open broadcast. Reception is legal in the EU, US and most countries; you're responsible for your own jurisdiction.
FAQ
Feed connected but nothing on the map?
In order: (1) give it a minute — the map refreshes fast, but your
feeder may batch its first packets; (2) check the connector line is
exactly adsb,feed.skydex.online,30004,beast_reduce_plus_out,uuid=<your-uuid>
— the format must be beast_reduce_plus_out, not plain beast;
(3) make sure outbound TCP 30004 isn't blocked by your
router/firewall; (4) restart the feeder container/service after any
config change. Still dark? Ask
in Discord — #feeders with your rough location (never post the
uuid publicly) and we'll look from our side.
I already feed five networks. Why one more?
Because this one is a game. Aggregators show your data on a map; Skydex turns it into someone's collection card, a world-first catch, a kid's first spotted A380. Zero extra hardware, one line of config.
What exactly do you receive from me?
A standard beast_reduce_plus stream — the same compact format
community aggregators use. No access to your device, no telemetry
beyond the ADS-B messages themselves.
Does MLAT work?
Not yet — the MLAT server comes once several receivers overlap in one region. ADS-B positions don't need it.
I don't have a receiver. Where do I start?
Raspberry Pi + an SDR stick with a built-in 1090 MHz filter (~€40) + any 1090 antenna, flashed with the free adsb.im image. From parts to first planes is under an hour, and the same station can feed every other network too. For a neutral, no-affiliate parts guide see the community ADS-B wiki.