This was written for the Mode-S Beast Receiver. This is a great little reciever that is based on an FPGA. It would be difficult to adapt it to another receiver, as these things all have different binary protocols to snag the data off of them.
The program drinks-in the serial port data (ignores the Mode-AC if enabled) and creates data structures in order to decode the bits into values we can all understand, and use for a Database Application.
This is a hobby program I've played around with to store Mode-S and ADS-B data in a MySQL database.
The database is designed so that as new targets come in, their Mode-S ICAO number is added to the modestable table, and the positions saved in the target and targetecho table. Sooner or later this aircraft will land or fade-out, and the database will move it to the history table. If it pops up again, then it is issued a new flight number. The data in the target table then, is the current data. When those targets fade or land, they are deleted from this table, and moved to the targethistory table.
Currently it only updates the registration (N-Number) for USA aircraft, as they are assigned 1:1, and I don't have any info on other countries. I don't do an Internet lookup, as most sites don't allow it for free.
With a database, you can then grab data and display it on a GUI for example (my antenna is on my desk and is not very good).
