Re: Chasing Balloons/Radiosondes
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Use the Chasemapper app in conjunction with radiosonde autorx, the sondes used to be reported to APRS, but it caused to much network traffic. Go look thru the autorx site and the group messages, you'll see the reasons there. Chasemapper app works very well, it gives you a predicted landing site that is very good.
KB9RKU
86 Sondes recovered so far
On Tue, Nov 22, 2022, 2:49 PM Michael WA7SKG < wa7skg@...> wrote: I'm thinking about getting into a new aspect of things. Not specifically
ham radio but adapted to and from it. The airport a few miles away
launches weather balloons twice a day which carries a radiosonde that
broadcasts on around 403 MHz. I'm putting together some receiver
packages for the house and the mobile to receive and decode these
things. They provide weather as well as position data. They show up on
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I'm planning on using the Auto-Rx package for the purpose. What I'd like
is for it to display as an item on my YAAC display. In the house, on the
big screen I can watch them and, if I see something viable, hop in the
truck and track it in the mobile and maybe find the device when it lands.
So, this leads to a few questions.
Is anyone familiar with Auto-RX and interfacing it to YAAC?
Is it possible to navigate to an APRS item shown in YAAC, or do I just
watch the screen and head for it?
Any other suggestions or tips for this project?
Thanks.
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73,
Michael WA7SKG
"Any day you do not learn one new thing is a wasted day."
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