RTL-SDR Tutorial: Cheap ADS-B Aircraft RADAR

The RTL-SDR can be used as a super cheap real time air radar. Modern planes use something called an ADS-B (Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast) Mode-S transponder, which periodically broadcasts location and altitude information to air traffic controllers. The RTL-SDR can be used to listen to these ADS-B signals, which can then be used to create your very own home aircraft radar system. Compared to dedicated commercial ADS-B receivers which can go for between $200 - $1000, the $20 RTL-SDR is very attractive for the hobbyist in terms of price. However, note that the RTL-SDR probably shouldn't be used for ADS-B navigation in a real aircraft for safety reasons. 

ADS-B broadcasts at a frequency of 1090 MHz. It has been discovered by the RTL-SDR community, that the RTL-SDR with R820T tuner has the best sensitivity at this frequency. The E4000 and other tuners perform poorly in comparison. So it is recommended that you obtain an R820T tuner if you want to set up ADS-B decoding with the RTL-SDR. Recently there has also been talk about the R820T2 tuner, which seems to have slightly better performance too. See the Buy RTL-SDR dongles page for more information on where to purchase.

We also now note that recently new higher end SDR's like the $199 Airspy have developed very good ADS-B receivers that are several times more sensitive that the RTL-SDR.

Examples of RTL-SDR used as an ADS-B air radar

In this video, YouTube user Superphish shows a timelapse of air traffic over New Zealand using RTL-SDR, ADSB# and Virtual Radar Server.

ADSB Virtual Air RADAR with RTL SDR (RTL2832), ADSB Sharp and Virtual Radar Server

In this video hamradioscience shows the rtl1090 decoder in action.

RTL1090 ADS-B Decoder for Windows Demo

Requirements for setting up RTL-SDR as an ADS-B air radar

For a cheap optimized filtered + LNA dongle and outdoor antenna set, please see the RadarBox AirNav bundle on our store for $49.95!

To set up an ADSB air radar you will need four things.

  1. A working RTL-SDR dongle. The R820T or R820T2 tuner is recommended for best performance at 1090 MHz.
  2. A vertically polarized antenna tuned to 1090 MHz.
  3. Software for listening and decoding ADS-B.
  4. Software to graphically display the received aircraft location data.

We will assume you have the RTL-SDR dongle set up and working already. If you have not bought a dongle yet, see the Buy RTL-SDR page for information, and the check out the Quickstart Guide for an easy setup routine.

ADS-B Antennas + LNA's + Filters

The stock antenna that comes with the dongle may already be able to pick up ADS-B signals, depending on how far away you are from the aircraft and what your local RF interference is like. However a properly tuned antenna is required to get decent range. There are of course commercial ADS-B antennas you can buy, but the best option for keeping in the cheap spirit of RTL-SDR is to build your own. ADS-B uses a vertically polarized signal, so only certain types of antennas will work.

Since ADS-B signals are generally quite strong, and have good line of sight opportunities, most vertically polarized antennas tuned for 1090 MHz will work well. Using a poorly tuned or poorly made antenna will just result in a lack of range for your air radar.

Also, ensure that your coax feed line (the length of coaxial cable between the antenna and dongle) is high quality and as short as possible. At gigahertz frequencies long runs of cheap coax tend to reduce signal strength significantly. Use coax cable intended for satellite installations, such as RG-6, as these cables are designed for gigahertz frequencies, and they are common and cheaply available too. 

A 1090 MHz filter can also help by blocking out interfering signals on other frequencies that could cause your RTL-SDR to overload. If an RTL-SDR overloads from other strong signals (e.g. broadcast FM, nearby cell/TV towers) then ADS-B reception will be degraded.

If you really want to improve your ADS-B reception and range you can also add a low noise amplifier (LNA). Due to a property of radio's called the "noise figure", it can be very beneficial to use an LNA with your RTL-SDR. The LNA can also help to overcome losses introduced by the coax cable. We recommend our ADS-B Filter+LNA (available on our store) which was specifically designed to improve ADS-B performance by filtering out unwanted interfering signals, and by reducing the noise figure and amplifying the ADS-B signals.

Using a powered USB extension cable and placing the dongle close to the antenna may be another option to consider when thinking of ways to improve reception. Some people have placed a Raspberry Pi running RTL-SDR at the antenna, and used WiFi or an Ethernet cable to send data to a PC.

If you simply want to buy a ready to go antenna and filter then we recommend the FlightAware collinear antenna and their 1090 MHz filter. See our review of these products here. We also highly recommend the RadarBox AirNav dongle + outdoor antenna bundle which we have acquired for our store for $49.95!

Collinear Coax Antenna

A very simple and cheap antenna for ADS-B can be built out of coax cable. The collinear antenna has very high omnidirectional gain directed towards the horizon. This means it will receive signals best from sources that are far away on the horizon. As most planes will likely be towards the horizon and not directly above you, this is an excellent antenna for ADS-B.

A collinear coax antenna is basically a length of multiple short coax cables, where the coax outer conductor is connected to the inner conductor in an alternating fashion.Colinear Antenna Design

This page has an excellent write up on the design and construction of a collinear coax cable for adsb. Even without the antenna matching modifications, this antenna can perform very well. This video shown here shows a comparison of a Discone vs. a Collinear antenna for ADS-B. Note that a coax collinear with 4-6 elements is probably enough, too many elements and the radiation pattern becomes too flat causing even worse reception.

Collinear Wire Antenna

The write up shown here shows a collinear antenna made from copper wire which is intended to be used with WiFi signals. To use with ADS-B, the antenna lengths can be recalculated for 1090MHz using the equations given on that page.

Wire Colinear

Wine Cork Dipole Antenna

A super easy antenna to build is Antirez's wine cork antenna. A write up of his antenna can be found here. Antirez's antenna is essentially a dipole antenna tuned for 1090MHz. Note that ADS-B is vertically polarized, so the dipole should be mounted vertically.

Wine cork dipole antenna

Quarter Wave Ground Plane Antenna

A small compact antenna that works well with ADS-B is the quarter wave ground plane. A good tutorial on constructing a quarter wave ground plane antenna for ADS-B recetpion can be found in this pdf file courtesy of atouk. Another pdf tutorial on quarter wave ground planes can be found here. A ground plane antenna can also be made using this calculator and this design. Some people have even reported success with using a coffee can tin lid as the ground plane.

The stock antenna that comes with the dongle can be turned into a ADS-B tuned quarter wave ground plane fairly easily. Simply cut the antenna down to around 6.5 cm in length and then place it on a metallic surface such as a large can lid that has a radius of around 6.5 cm. If you have a telescopic stock antenna, fully collapse it down to its shortest length of around 9.5 cm and do not place it on a metallic surface. Basically, you can compensate for lack of a large ground plane by making the antenna longer which is why 9.5 cm with no ground plane works well for 1090 MHz. Note that unless it's an improved version, the coax cable on the stock antenna is bad and you will loose several dB's of signal due to it.

ADSB Groundplane Antenna

J-Pole Antenna

Another antenna which is easily constructed out of a bit of wire is an 1090 MHz sized J-Pole. This page shows one such project. It is essentially a wire bent into the shape of a 'J', with a balun for matching. Slim-Jim type J-pole antennas should also work well. It is also possible to build J-Poles out of common twin lead wire, just adjust the required lengths using a J-Pole calculator for 1090 MHz.

ADSB J-Pole

PCB Antenna

There is also this interesting PCB based antenna design made for ADS-B reception, and also a PCB based strip line antenna.

ADS-B Preselectors

Many people have reported getting much improved reception after applying a 1090 MHz band pass filter to their setup. For example, see this post here where the experimenter was able to massively increase the number of ADS-B messages received with the band pass filter attached.

One good band pass filter design is this PCB based hairpin filter. Another good option is a 1090 MHz SAW filter component which can be cheaply purchased from Ebay for around $10. These components are small and require decent soldering skills. See this image for an example of one wired up. A ready to go plug-in ADS-B filter can also be purchased, but these cost much more.

ADS-B Listening and Decoding Software

Currently, there are multiple software options available for listening and decoding ADS-B signals with the RTL-SDR. All software is free.

ADSB# (Now unavailable)

NOTE: ADSB# has recently been removed from SDR# and can no longer be downloaded. The developer has stated that it is old and the other alternatives shown below are much more useful. The most similar GUI based software is RTL1090.

ADSB# is a windows based ADS-B decoder developed by the programmers of the SDRSharp software. It has a simple graphic user interface and is probably the easiest decoder to use. ADSB# is downloaded as part of the SDR# install procedure.

An excellent tutorial on getting up and running with ADSB# can be found in this pdf file file written by Henry Forte.

adsbSharpScreenshot

RTL1090

RTL1090 is another windows based ADS-B decoder with graphical user interface. Has more options than ADSB# and a spectrum viewer, but is reported to not be as good a decoder as ADSB#. RTL1090 can be downloaded from here. Use the RTL1090 IMU installer as this will help download all the files needed to make this software run. RTL1090 seems to have slightly better performance compared to ADSB#.

Recently the RTL1090 series 2 beta has been released. It promises to eventually have improved ADS-B decoding, so keep an eye out. The latest beta version now also includes a simple built in scope for visualizing aircraft positions.

rtl1090

dump1090

This is a Linux/Max/Windows based command line ADS-B decoder. It is very useful for Linux based devices such as the Raspberry Pi, but it also works just as well on desktop PCs and laptops. With dump1090 you could set up a Raspberry Pi decoder that feeds data to a online webserver which shows a map. Dump1090 can be downloaded from its most updated Git repository here. To download dump1090 for Windows simply go to the Git repository and download the dump1090 zip file.

NOTE: There is currently a bug with the Windows version that can cause the dump1090 web server to not display any map or settings in a browser. This is because there are differences in the way that Windows and Linux handle line breaks in text files. In the javascript files that dump1090 uses the line break character must be in the Linux format for dump1090 to work properly. For some reason when we extract the files onto a Windows system, Windows automatically changes the line break character to the Windows one.

Fixing this bug requires a little work, but it is easy to do. First download Notepad++. Now go to the dump1090 folder and open the public_html folder. Open the first .js file with Notepad++. Go to View->Show Symbol->Show All Characters. You may notice that the line break characters are shown in the Windows format as “CRLF”. Now go to Edit->EOL Conversion->UNIX/OSX Format. Notice that the line break characters change to “LF”. Save the file and repeat this process with every file in the public_html folder, including the .css and .html files. Also perform the same steps to the .js files in the coolclock folder.

Dump1090 is reported to probably have the best ADS-B decoding performance out of all the software. Another advantage to dump1090 is that extra mapping software is not required as it can generate a Google Map webserver which shows the aircraft.

An interesting project and tutorial on using the Raspberry Pi with dump1090 can be found here.

dump1090

Modesdeco

ModesDeco is a Windows/ Linux /OSX/ Rpi command line based decoder. It can receive Mode S and Mode A/ C data simultaneously. Download the latest version from the last page on this forum post.

Cocoa1090

This is a ADS-B decoder written for Mac OS X. It can be downloaded from here. It requires rtl_tcp to be installed.

Cocoa1090

gr-air-modes

A plugin used in GNU Radio for decoding ADS-B. The gr-air-modes Git site can be found here. Note that gr-air-modes may not have been updated to use the newer GNU Radio 3.7 version yet.

Graphical ADS-B RADAR Display Software

The decoders mentioned above all send the decoded ADS-B data through a local (or public if desired) network connection. There are a few software options available for receiving this network data and displaying it. Here we show four of the most popular, three are free, and one is paid with a trial option.

Virtual Radar Server

Virtual radar server is free software which displays plane positions in a browser window using Google maps. The map can then be shared with other people over the internet if desired. The ADSB# tutorial in this pdf file file written by Henry Forte explains how to set up Virtual Radar Server with ADSB# easily. Virtual radar server can be downloaded from here.

You can also search in Google using the string inurl:"VirtualRadar/GoogleMap.htm" to find public Virtual Radar Servers.

Virtual Radar Server

PlanePlotter

PlanePlotter is a sophisticated commercial software with a 21 day trial period. After the trial period a licence can be purchased for 25 euros. PlanePlotter is also able to combine ACARS and ADS-B information together if you have two RTL-SDR sticks and can also be used to share data with the popular online ADS-B aggregator flightradar24.com.

One big advantage to using PlanePlotter is that it has a multilateration option which can be unlocked either by regularly contributing ADS-B data to their servers, or by paying 12 euros a year. Multilateration is a method which is used to estimate positions of planes that are broadcasting ADS-B signals without position data. PlanePlotter can be downloaded from here.

Plane Plotter Example

adsbSCOPE

The adsbSCOPE software is another free ADS-B radar program with network sharing options. You can download ADS-B data which is shared by other adsbSCOPE users to augment your own local radar setup. This allows you to have a global air radar. adsbSCOPE can be downloaded from the bottom of this linked page.

The tutorial pdf file file written by Henry Forte also shows how to set up adsbSCOPE with ADSB#, but is also applicable to RTL1090. Another good tutorial on setting up ADSBScope can be found here.

ADSBScope Screenshot

Globe-S

A lightweight radar viewer intended to be used with RTL1090. A tutorial on setting up Globe-S with RTL1090 can be found here, and Globe-S itself can be downloaded from this page.

Globe-S

Feeding Data to Flight Data Aggregators

FlightRadar24.com is a service which collects ADS-B flight information from numerous sources around the world, and shares them on their website. You can use your RTL-SDR ADS-B radar set up to contribute to this service by either using PlanePlotter, or downloading the software from their website. If you are a contributor, you will be rewarded with access to FlightRadar24's premium features.

FlightAware.com is another similar service. They have software for the Raspberry Pi which will allow you to feed their servers.

Another service is RadarBox24.com which can also be fed via a Raspberry Pi.

Video Tutorial

Corrosive's tutorial on his SignalsEverywhere shows us how to set up an ADS-B receiver with dump1090 and Virtual Radar Server. 

Some Tips

  • ADS-B signals are line of sight. So that means the antenna should not be obstructed by things like trees or buildings. Put the antenna up as high as possible.
  • Check what tuner gain settings give the best reception at 1090 MHz in SDRSharp first.
  • Use high quality coax cable for your feed line between antenna and tv dongle. At high frequencies such as 1090 MHz, cheap coax can lose signal easily. RG-6 or better coax is recommended.
  • If possible, place the dongle close to the antenna, and use a powered USB cable to reach the computer.
  • An LNA such as this or this may improve performance.
  • If you have out of band interference at 1090 MHz, check out this ADS-B filter design.
  • The R820T is the best RTL-SDR tuner to use at 1090 MHz and the R820T2 may work even better.

If you enjoyed this tutorial you may like our ebook available on Amazon.

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V1OhNo

Looks like the Globe-S link is closed?

taco cat

This is cool and useful. really cool. However, as a pedant it is my responsibility to point out that this is in no sense a RADAR. the aircraft broadcast the data and you pick it up and display it.

you do not bounce a radar beam of the aircraft and use the reflection to discern its location etc. If you did our tyrannical overlords the government would show up and tell you what they’ll alow you to do during your time on this earth. namely rot in a cell.

Confused Radio Amateur.

This is ok for ADS-B aircraft and i have good reception,
using 360Radar of course i receive more aircraft due to multiple receivers,
but still aircraft fly over my area which i can not receive or identify ?
are these ADS-B equipped ?
why does website not pick them up but police, military and commercial all ok ?

how can i identify aircraft which are not on any website live tracking ?

GI4238

Maybe some planes’ signal can’t be decoded.Some ads-b signal doesn’t contain their location.To recognize them,you can try “MLAT”,it is available on github.

Lester Hinton

Can you also hear the airplanes I hear nothing. It is not muted.

keith

you cant hear anything on 1098 well I cant but can see the planes

Ron

As I said on Feb 18, 2022, and K7OI stated adsb scope and 1090 do not work on windows 11, haven’t been able to get the two communicating. RTL1090works great adsb scope will not connect also no comports are working either. This article needs to be updated for windows 11. Everything works well with windows 10 and below. Hope someone can help.

K7OI

Any one know of a help group for getting adsb scope and 1090 tp work on windows 11, havent been able to get the 2 communicating. RTL1090works great adsb scope will not connect also no comports are working either. had this working well on a windows 8 without any issues just download and they worked, windows 11 isnt letting rtl1090 talk to adsb scope.

NOSRWebs

This is the best blog on this subject.

I’m impressed.

Ro

I have virtual radar on my windows 10 computer, and I use RTL1090, and it is running very well. I just purchased a Dell laptop computer which has windows 11 and I tried to put virtual radar on it but when I try to run it, it gives me a statement that it cannot connect. I have used the exact inputs to set it up that I used for my windows 10 computer. Can virtual radar not run on a windows 11 computer? RTL1090 runs on the windows 11 laptop. What may I be doing that is wrong? I would appreciate any advice to correct this situation. I am very frustrated.

Stelios

I would like to ask if it possible to decode mode C/3 , military Transponder on 1090 mhz with sdr dongle? ??

Paul Falke

You know that mode 3/A is a12 bit number and that mode C is another 12 bit number? One is the SSR code, the other the altitude. Both numbers have no position information. Maybe multilateration can help you. But you are not very precise. And yes, a stealth airplane switches off the transponder on a stealth mission, that is getting 3/A and C information will not show you the bad boys.

anon

Please update the link to the dump1090 repository. You are linking a fork that hasn’t been updated in 8+ years.

https://github.com/antirez/dump1090 is the original and maintained.

AlphaCodingSkills

A nice article. Thanks for sharing.

Stevesweb

That was 200 miles out! And the age 12 was when I made an AM broadcast radio out of a long wire antenna, hand wrapped coil and a diode. Science Teacher was quite impressed. Well, only after I talked him into running a 100 feet of wire across the playground 🙂

Roger Oveur

you should use something like https://www.everythingrf.com/rf-calculators/line-of-sight-calculator – now that deosnt take into consideration LOS density@RF frequency of choice (rain, fog, smog ..the worst actually) and it does not consider diminishing returns, Friis and path loss….but it does give it a generalization of using the aircraft as the antenna height. IE 30,000ft ….approx 210 miles etc.

Stevesweb

I am using a recently purchased the RTL-SDR V3 dongle with the RTL-SDR ADS-B 1090 MHz LNA (had to wait a while for it to be available) and a TRAM 1411 discone antenna (at 15 feet). I am receiving an avg of 65 aircraft at 200 feet out. Windows 10 Surface Tablet. I’m in central US. This is much better reception than I anticipated. I’ve had a hobby of radio communication since age 12 (1974). Only TX I’ve done was CB Radio years ago, everything else has been RX. RTL-SDR blog has opened a whole new universe of radio reception. Thanks to RTL-SDR.COM and all of the comments. Every post helps with setting up SDR.

Jeff Dafoe

I was using my RTL-SDR dongle for about a year for trunk scanning, but I just bought a Uniden SDS100 for that. Now I followed the instructions in various blog posts here to use the dongle to pick up aircraft via RTL1090 and Virtual Radar. It was easy to set up. I’m only using the “rabbit ears” that came with the dongle and I’m getting ADS-B reception to 25 miles out. The RTL-SDR $12 rabbit ears work great with the Uniden too, I just bought another set to use for it so I don’t have to keep unplugging the RTL-SDR dongle. I never stop being amazed at how much you can do with this inexpensive little dongle and how well it works.

James

happy to lol

a7md

the RTL-SDR v3 have ads-b or need
RTL-SDR-Blog-ADS-B-Triple-Filtered-LNA-Bias-Tee-Powered

kp12

Tried to share with http://www.adsbhub.org , quite good support of SBS, Beast and VR protocols.

Feng

Is anyone who has the idea how to track a specific aircraft with certain flight number instead of tracking all the aircraft?

Anonymous

https://flightaware.com/ track any plane in real time all you need is the N number.

C. Morrison

Nice article but one comment. Your collinear and wire dipole look horizontally mounted, but UHF is vertically polarized. I suspect you may have showed the photo in that orientation due to space constraints, but it’s confusing, especially for those who don’t understand these systems.

Kevin McCormick

You should add tpainter’s version of Dump1090.
There are some nice improvements including a RSSI option.

https://github.com/tpainter/dump1090_win

Kevin McCormick

Also this 5/8 wave co-linear antenna build looks interesting as well.

http://radarspotting.com/forum/index.php/topic,3943.0.html

Mathieu

I installed Cocoa1090 on my Macbook Pro. Works fine!
But I should like to know if there is Display Software for it, to make the planes visible.
Until now, I could not find this.
Somebody to help me?

Thanks in advance!
Mathieu

lars

Hello, I mounted my antenna on the roof, but it is a little obstructed in some directions. I am getting 9700 frames/sec very consistently, but I have captured 0 planes. Any ideas? I left it running for two days but still no aircraft 🙁

lars

Also I cant seem to find any signal in 1090mhz in sdrsharp, but adsb# reports getting 9700 frames/sec.

AF5OI

Air Traffic Controllers Pick the Wrong Week to Quit Using Radar
http://www.wired.com/2012/07/adsb-spoofing/

Well written Wired article on how Automated Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast can easily be spoofed. Apparently, the authorities are over-relying on ADS-B. Anyone broadcasting a valid (well formed) signal on 1090 mHz can cause mayhem. Might be up to SDR users to help locate a rogue transmitter.

n8uad

@AF5OI – Apparently the person that wrote the article has very little understanding of how ADS B works. The reason no one in “the business” considers this a security risk is because we understand how the system works.

George Ou

n8uad, you sound like a typical IT bureaucrat who likes to downplay threats until they actually happen.

ADS-B has even bigger problems than spoofing.
http://hightechforum.org/new-airline-navigation-system-easy-target-for-terrorists/

Paul Falke

The Wired article is from 2012. In 2021, 9 years later, ADS-B is still not the number 1 tool for air situation display. The air traffic controllers I know still use mode S (and maybe Mode 3/A and C). You can jam mode S, no problem, but you will soon have police at the position of your jammer. Creating a false mode S signal that will show a real airplane (using mode S transponder) at a wrong position is much harder to do. You now have two possibilities: believe that we are doomed and travel by train, car, ship or wonder why the disaster that Wired uncovered 9 years ago did not happen yet. Your choice.

Kadir

Can i change 1090mhz?

Paul Falke

You can change 1090 MHz. You can set RTL SDR receive frequency to say 1080 MHz. But there is no signal at 1080 MHz, only noise. See, the RTL SDR is a receiver. Playing with the receiver will noz change the situation at the transmitter. The transmitter is forced by law to transmit at 1090 MHz.

Javier Bará

For those worrying about a good antenna: with the rtl-sdr Terratec stock antenna I can track in-flight airplanes at 250 km, that is, 136 nm. How? I live in a 15th floor level, at a height of 72 m over sea level and have an unobstructed view of the sea around SSW. The farthest point was well past east the island of Majorca. But I have no views of planes at Majorca airport. A question of line of sight rather than antenna quality.

n8uad

You’re correct, but only to a point, a higher gain antenna could help you “see” the airport, probably not worth the money you’d spend on it though.

Curtis Wheat

Here is a link to a simple ground plane antenna I built. The one I have sitting in my window hanging from a curtain rod is getting about 200nm range. The vertical element and the radials need to be cut to about 2 9/16″ for the 1090mhz frequency.

https://www.arrl.org/files/file/Technology/tis/info/pdf/ab18-16.pdf

Frank

thank you so much for the tutorial and MUCH thanks to the gurus who make it possible!
vy 73 de Frank K2NCC in Oregon

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAbWnYN0Sdc

rtl1090

The rtl1090.web99.de site is a pain in the ass!

AviaBarsik

Описание на русском использования RTL SDR в качестве авиарадара смотрите здесь:

AviaBarsik
duchmol

tout ce que vous décrivez est magnifique, mais il y à un mais ….. vous jouez avec des données de la sécurité aérienne. Et vous allez me trouver parano, mais je suis sur que d’autres doivent chercher activement comment ils pourront détourner un avion, et vous les aidez bien en cela. Cela arrivera un jour soyez en sur.
si vous etes dans un de ces avions détournés , peut etre vous rapelerez vous de ce que je viens d’écrire.
je vous vois en train de vous tordre de rire et penser que je suis un vieux con. Oui , oui, continuez.

lomhcud
Javier Bará

This information is available at every mobile phone with several applications, and is even provided by the airports themselves.

James Cook

Javier….No..your app won’t do that.The airports do not provide the callsign, airspeed, heading, GPS location, airspeed, and this also picks up private aircraft….your airport isn’t displaying anything about private aircraft are they?

Anonymous

Absolument! Tu est un vieux con.

w3sz

RTL1090 Beta 102 [29-Jun-2013] running on XP SP3 here will lock up computer every 1.5 – 3 days.

This continues even after wiping of hard drive, followed by fresh install of XP, with all MS updates done, but NO software installed except for RTL1090 and FlightRadar24.com feeder [not running] and Meinberg NTP.

Running with just Meinberg NTP service and without RTL1090 Beta 102, no lockups are occurring.