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DroneSight

Community Remote ID receiver network in advertised private beta.

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Identity and relationship

DroneSight, official domain getdronesight.com, is the user's starting reference and a direct comparison for a community drone observation network. The inspected site advertises private beta; legal entity, ownership and office geography were not established. Research date: 2026-10-09 America/Los_Angeles. Sources are vendor statements, not independent field validation.1

Offering and deployment

The homepage describes combining receivers' broadcast Remote ID observations into a live map and limits beta platform access to active receiver hosts. Selected applicants are offered a receiver and network access without charge.1

The host page specifies indoor placement high and near an outside view, Wi-Fi backhaul and passive reception restricted to drones broadcasting ASTM F3411. It claims roughly one-mile reception, which is an untested vendor range. Selection favors expected traffic and coverage gaps; hosts are promised free premium features indefinitely. No cash contributor payment or public API offer was found in these inspected pages.2

Pricing, rights and status

The August 2026 host terms clarify that the receiver remains DroneSight property on a free voluntary loan; a prepaid return label is offered. Hosts provide power and Wi-Fi. DroneSight claims exclusive rights over uploaded airspace data and rights to aggregate/display/publish it. These are stated contract terms, not a legal assessment of enforceability. No retail receiver price or nonhost service tariff was captured.3

The public map's captured HTML contains flight, aircraft and operator-location controls and zero counters. It provides evidence of a map interface, not a successful observation of live traffic: dynamic data was not captured, and zero counters cannot establish inactivity.4

Geography and evidence gaps

The host page says access covers nearby activity and activity “around the country” without identifying eligible countries in that section. Site imagery labels Minneapolis, but neither that illustration nor marketing copy proves operational coverage. Active node count, country eligibility, observed detections, exact output schema, historical retention, API/export rights and public availability remain unresolved.12

Contradictions and analysis

The terms use broader language about RF telemetry, while the host page expressly restricts tracking to ASTM F3411 broadcasters. Treat this as Remote ID reception unless broader capabilities are separately evidenced. “Free receiver” means a loan under the terms. A publicly reachable map and host-exclusive beta wording leave public access scope unclear.3214

Analysis: this is the closest of these three companies to the original community-receiver structure, but its free loan/access incentive does not validate the proposed $10 payment. No detection of silent or nonbroadcasting drones is evidenced.

Capture and review

Original HTML and extracted text preserved. Linked assets and live map traffic absent. Publication dates unknown except August 2026 terms. Claims were checked against these captures by the researcher; independent performance and company-status corroboration were not obtained. Independent evidence review is recorded in study review.

Data and access follow-up — 2026-10-09

Additional inspection identifies interface labels and diagnostic information relevant to the contribution model; exact export schema, retention and host API/bulk rights remain unresolved.5

  1. DroneSight home, 2026-10-10T04:54:52Z original, How it works, Host a receiver, FAQs and map image description. Original URL: https://www.getdronesight.com/. ↩↩↩↩

  2. DroneSight host a receiver, 2026-10-10T04:55:00Z original, The Receiver and How it works steps 2–6. Original URL: https://www.getdronesight.com/host-a-receiver. ↩↩↩

  3. DroneSight receiver host terms August 2026, 2026-10-10T04:55:00Z original, last updated August 2026, sections 1–5. Original URL: https://www.getdronesight.com/terms-of-service. ↩↩

  4. DroneSight map, 2026-10-10T04:55:01Z original, Filters and Flights controls/counters. Original URL: https://map.getdronesight.com/. ↩↩

  5. Bounded evidence and exact capture citations; vendor documentation only, with partial text captures and no live service or performance test. ↩

Sources, provenance and record details
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type: Company
title: DroneSight
description: Community Remote ID receiver network in advertised private beta.
status: draft
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  at: '2026-10-10T05:33:40.993067+00:00'
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