BOM Radiosonde

[JhG123]

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


Managed to recover the balloon


Mission accomplished


Now to try and open the bloody thing without breaking it

[g7gpr]

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.

[Broadsword]

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!!

[JhG123]

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.

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.

[Broadsword]

Nice work! Thanks for the info

[macca1024]

Another recovery


About a 7km round trip walk





Stuck up a tree, waaaay up there.






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

[Broadsword]

Well done!

How did you get it down?