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BOM Radiosonde

Posted: Fri Jan 29, 2021 11:28 pm
by 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
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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:

Re: BOM Radiosonde

Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2021 8:20 am
by 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.

Re: BOM Radiosonde

Posted: Wed Feb 10, 2021 9:03 pm
by 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!!

Re: BOM Radiosonde

Posted: Fri Feb 12, 2021 12:06 am
by JhG123
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.

Re: BOM Radiosonde

Posted: Fri Feb 12, 2021 7:10 pm
by Broadsword
Nice work! Thanks for the info 👍

Re: BOM Radiosonde

Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2021 12:30 pm
by macca1024
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

Posted: Wed Mar 03, 2021 12:11 am
by Broadsword
Well done!

How did you get it down? 😮