BOM Radiosonde

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JhG123
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BOM Radiosonde

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Tracked down a radiosonde in Piara Waters. Spent about an hour trying to get it out of the trees but managed to in the end. RS_S3010667

Tracking down the signal in the bush
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/ ... 152628.mp4

Found the beacon in the tree
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Managed to recover the balloon
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Mission accomplished
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Now to try and open the bloody thing without breaking it :lol:
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Re: BOM Radiosonde

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Well done on getting it out of the tree - I went and took a look but it seemed too hard. I was there about noon.
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Interesting stuff!

So when hunting for it were you using 70cm FM? I thought I'd read that you need a SSB receiver and that FM wouldn't work....hope that's incorrect.

Great job on the find!!
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Re: BOM Radiosonde

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g7gpr wrote: Mon Feb 08, 2021 8:20 am Well done on getting it out of the tree - I went and took a look but it seemed too hard. I was there about noon.
It was certainly quite a challenge, ended up pulling the balloon out of the other tree, cutting the line, then pulling the sonde through the top of the trees. I got there about 3:26 and spent about an hour trying to retrieve it.
Broadsword wrote: Wed Feb 10, 2021 9:03 pm Interesting stuff!

So when hunting for it were you using 70cm FM? I thought I'd read that you need a SSB receiver and that FM wouldn't work....hope that's incorrect.

Great job on the find!!
Initially used my radio tuned to 401.500 on NFM when I got there to make sure the beacon hadn't landed in the powerlines or had lost battery, then once I got into the bushland I used a laptop with an SDR and some software called Sondemonitor to nail down the location.
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Nice work! Thanks for the info 👍
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Re: BOM Radiosonde

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Another recovery


About a 7km round trip walk

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Stuck up a tree, waaaay up there.

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What's left. One less bit of rubbish in nature.

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Re: BOM Radiosonde

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Well done!

How did you get it down? 😮
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