u/jonmead

Self-promo / maker disclosure up front: I'm building this, and I'd love feedback from people who use SDRs, scanners, ADS-B receivers, and local monitoring setups.

The project is called Squelch Deck. It is a dedicated touchscreen SDR appliance for local radio monitoring: aviation, ADS-B, spectrum analysis, scanner workflows, and other RF apps that deserve a simple, always-available place to run.

The goal is to make the most useful local RF workflows feel more approachable and repeatable, while still respecting what makes SDR interesting in the first place. DIY SDR is powerful, and dedicated scanners still make sense for many people. Squelch Deck is meant to be another path: a device that can sit on the desk, receive local RF directly, switch between useful monitoring apps, and keep audio plus context in one place.
Right now I am focusing on:

Airband monitoring
ADS-B aircraft tracking with a local touch-friendly map
Spectrum analysis and RF exploration
Public-safety / scanner monitoring where local systems are monitorable
OpenWebRX / Airspy Server-style network access
Recorded call history with timestamps, frequencies, talkgroups, source info, and replay
Crowd-sourced feed sharing so local data can be shared with other listeners

For ADS-B, the goal is to show nearby aircraft, tracks, heading, speed, altitude, and distance/bearing from the receiver. For scanner-style monitoring, the goal is to keep the context that usually gets lost in a live audio feed: what system, what talkgroup, what frequency, when it happened, and the recording.
Important caveats: it only receives what your antenna and local RF environment can receive, it does not bypass encryption, local laws still matter, and some public-safety systems will not be practically monitorable depending on encryption, simulcast, local configuration, and available data.
I would love community input on:

If you already run ADS-B, airband, Trunk Recorder, SDRTrunk, OpenWebRX, or similar setups, what would make your workflow smoother?
Would you want this as a closed appliance, an open app platform, or something in between?
What would make this feel genuinely useful as a dedicated radio-monitoring device?

Site / waitlist, if you want to follow along: https://squelchdeck.com
I'm happy to answer technical questions, and I would especially appreciate perspective from people who have already built pieces of this workflow themselves.

Edit: Here's a photo of the working prototype https://imgur.com/a/hDEGv3z

I could use some advice, my 2006 Sportster XL1200C is very unappy - I'm researching the issues, but could use some advice.

* Pulled my sportster out of the barn, which has been sitting since covid. Drained the fuel tank, replaced with fuel, looked at the plugs which were good
* Added oil to the oil tank which was reading below the line (before starting)
* Bike started up, throttled up just a bit and set the throddle to let it run for a bit and come up to temparture
* 5 minutes later went out to check, the bike was hot (a bit of yellowing on the heat shield for one of the pipes, a little bit of smoke coming out of the air filter
* Returned to idle --> Stalled --> Restarted and backfiring out the exhause and air intake
* Plugs were fouled, internet said maybe sitting for a while made me add too much oil and I wet sumped?

Any suggestions on next steps? Did I wet sump and that's the issue, or maybe once the engine heated up the intake seals got unhappy?

* I drained off the oil from the rubber host, replaced the plugs, misfires continue
* Should I keep running/feathering the throttle because it's wet sumped and hope it works itself out?
* Does this point to bad intake seals that maybe failed when the engine got up to temp?
* Anything else to consider?

I’m building Squelch Deck: a touchscreen SDR appliance for aviation, ADS-B, and spectrum analysis

My 2006 sportster xl1200C is verry unhappy - misfires/smoking oil wet sump? bad seals?