You are a legend!! These tutorials you keep putting out are so well explained and easy to follow Thank You. During the lockdown you have given me plenty to try out rather than mow the lawn or cut the hedge! and i have spent a fortune! but still loving it. Please keep up the great content you keep putting out. THANK YOU!!!
I've been tracking them using Radiosonde auto rx running on a raspberry pi. I decided to put it in the car can chase one a few weeks back and I managed to recover it. You can flash the micro controller and there s bunch of open source projects around to reuse them either as HAB payloads or little fox hunting transmitters. I haven't decided what to do with it yet but I'm tempted to donate it to the museum of radio communication in Derby when it reopens. I'm tempted to chase a few more but it's so windy at the moment I don't think I'll be able to keep up and there's a good chance they'll end up in the sea. One of the launch sites is at Watnall which is not far from me but I might stand a better chance of catching one from down south if the wind is blowing north. I think they have a launch site just south of Bedford and a couple on the south coast. Supposedly there are 6 met office launch sites but I haven't seen the others yet.
That’s awesome that you managed to located one. You could see in my video I was receiving 3 different balloons at the same time, and one of them was definitely launched from Bedford, I think it’s the one I was showing in the video. It kind flew south and then went east, but if it changed direction and flew west it would of been in my area. I might of been tempted to go chasing in the car too! RS41 Tracker has the option to feed it with NMEA from a serial GPS, so it always shows the correct bearing of the Balloon, perfect for hunting for them! Maybe when I try this again I be ready to go mobile just incase it comes this way! :) thanks for watching, I’ll look into the RPI solution too.
@@Steve-GM0HUU Steve I belive in UK its not so well known, but after a litte advertisement it will be spread out . Today Jim , 5B4ALS in Cyprus made the first monitoring, I sent him some information a few weeks ago. Its linke a virus :-)
Way back in the early 80's I worked on the wind resolving radar which tracked sondes and calculated wind speed and direction at the 'standard' levels. E.g. 500, 400, 300 mb et seq. I'll definitely load the software you used and have a play . Many thanks, J
Thanks for a very informative and easy to follow video. I had been meaning to have a look at weather balloons for some time and this was the trigger to get on and have a go myself. I have had some really good success using a combination of SMART IV RTL-SDR; HD-SDR and homebrewed HB9CV .. which I have to use indoors! Have recorded data from the Larkhill 10:30Z launched balloon over several days and used Excel to produce some simple plots and wind rose. Well done!!
Exactly my HF radio transmitter. Intrigue me because it was a h f but I just found out today it was used on weather balloon 70 volt miniature electron tube and another tube.. that's a little larger now I need to find out what they did in 1950s compared to what they do now and try to figure out what the radio show that I'm getting actually did was it altitude? Wind speed? I'm new to this but I'm going to learn it
👍 brilliant, interesting, thanks. I have added this to list of projects. I am located near an airport and reckon should be able to track the balloons they launch. This would also be a good excuse to make that 2m/70cm log periodic I have been thinking about - should nicely cover the met balloon frequencies.
Thanks for this video. Just started to receive these balloons as they mostly fly right up to my location when release in Essen/Germany. Cheers es vy73 de DL4DE.
I wonder how often the weather bureau launch these balloons and I wonder if every country do this as a standard weather monitoring. Very entertaining video once again and give me more stuff to look at 😅 Thank you
A 1950 they use a 70 volt electron tubes miniature of course one was a little bit bigger and we'll work on lesser voltages.. I just saying was a.m. HF and I probably did not do as much as I do now but it's still cool
I am doing a weather balloon project for school and i was wondering where i would purchase a raidosonde or is there a better option for tacking the balloon?
Tech Minds Many sites in the US are using 1680 MHz radiosondes (usually Lockheed Martin LMS6 sondes), but they are slowly transitioning to using the 400 MHz band. Many sites in the US are using the 400 MHz band already, using a combination of Vaisala RS41 and a 400 MHz variant of the Lockheed Martin LMS6.
I followed the connection instructions you show with VB Audio Cable using SDRSharp, but only get connection fail messages from RS41. I wrote the RS41 developer but never heard back. Can't figure out why the VB Audio Cable connection does not work.
I just ordered a 1950s New Old Stock weather balloon radio transmitter high frequency military radio transmitter.. I mainly ordered it because it's a HF radio but now I want to know what these things can do and did do at that time and we'll do now I see you're using a waterfall that is cool
Have tried to get this up and going. Have RSP1A , RSPUNO, Virtual audio cable... The Tracker shows preamble , but will not decode. The radiosonde I am looking to see is a RS41SGP Any ideas as to what I am screwing up ??
@@TechMindsOfficial Sorry missed it, didn't expect such a prompt reply, I'm in N. Northants. so might get the Nottingham or Bedford ones if wind is in the right direction. thanks also for the website link.
Hi mate! Thanks for great videos! I have some problems trying decoding these ballons.. I have strong signals but the "preamble" light just keep flashing, but no info comes up, any ideas what could be wrong?
@@TechMindsOfficial THE PROGRAM YOU USE TO DECODE THE RADIOSONE ALSO HAS GRAPHICS IF U LOOK IT UP BY THE CLOG WHEEL IT BE NICE IF YOU WOULD SHOW IT TO PEOPLE SO THEY KNOW THERE IS MORE THAN JUST FOLLOW WERE IT GOES THEY ALSO CAN GET THE DATA FROM IT AND SEE WHAT THE WEATHER PEOPLE SEE AS WELL
I'm a little late but I have tried this out and it doesn't work, Not because of this video. I have received them here In North Carolina but I believe it is operating in a different mode than RS41 so I cannot decode it. But a question I have is has anyone found a U.S. launch schedule/live tracker so I know when an RS41 is released? Besides that, Great Video! :)
@@TechMindsOfficial Ok thank you, I will give it a try. Do you know of any trackers for the United States? I seen that one for Switzerland but not any other ones.
Unfortunately not, I’m from the UK so I’m not too sure about US launches. Have a look through the comments though, I think some one mentioned something about US launches.
@@MrC-Hacking There are many radiosonde launch sites in the US! However a lot of US sites are using 1680 MHz sondes, but are slowly transitioning to the 400 MHz band. While the 1680 MHz sondes are a bit of a pain to receive (need a preamp and an antenna with gain, like a dish), the 400 MHz sondes are surprisingly easy to RX. However, many US sites are using LMS6 sondes which are not decodable by the software mentioned in this video. radiosonde_auto_rx will decode these however.
You forget to censor some important things. Please censor the tracking data. I managed to find your house with it. (Street view is rather old, but I think I was able to find your house. I'm sorry for stalking you. ) I won't do anything to your data and will probably just forget it, but there might be some people with bad intentions. Please protect your privacy. Otherwise it's an awesome video. Thank you, I am getting up early tomorrow to receive some radiosonde data.
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You are a legend!! These tutorials you keep putting out are so well explained and easy to follow Thank You. During the lockdown you have given me plenty to try out rather than mow the lawn or cut the hedge! and i have spent a fortune! but still loving it. Please keep up the great content you keep putting out. THANK YOU!!!
You’re welcome! Thanks for nice comment, sorry about your bank balance :) 👌
you are the best person that explains very detail and calm voice. thanks for your efforts..
You’re welcome :)
I've been tracking them using Radiosonde auto rx running on a raspberry pi. I decided to put it in the car can chase one a few weeks back and I managed to recover it. You can flash the micro controller and there s bunch of open source projects around to reuse them either as HAB payloads or little fox hunting transmitters. I haven't decided what to do with it yet but I'm tempted to donate it to the museum of radio communication in Derby when it reopens. I'm tempted to chase a few more but it's so windy at the moment I don't think I'll be able to keep up and there's a good chance they'll end up in the sea. One of the launch sites is at Watnall which is not far from me but I might stand a better chance of catching one from down south if the wind is blowing north. I think they have a launch site just south of Bedford and a couple on the south coast. Supposedly there are 6 met office launch sites but I haven't seen the others yet.
That’s awesome that you managed to located one. You could see in my video I was receiving 3 different balloons at the same time, and one of them was definitely launched from Bedford, I think it’s the one I was showing in the video. It kind flew south and then went east, but if it changed direction and flew west it would of been in my area. I might of been tempted to go chasing in the car too! RS41 Tracker has the option to feed it with NMEA from a serial GPS, so it always shows the correct bearing of the Balloon, perfect for hunting for them! Maybe when I try this again I be ready to go mobile just incase it comes this way! :) thanks for watching, I’ll look into the RPI solution too.
😀 Well done. While I was watching the video I was wondering if anyone was trying to recover these.
@@Steve-GM0HUU Steve I belive in UK its not so well known, but after a litte advertisement it will be spread out . Today Jim , 5B4ALS in Cyprus made the first monitoring, I sent him some information a few weeks ago. Its linke a virus :-)
Way back in the early 80's I worked on the wind resolving radar which tracked sondes and calculated wind speed and direction at the 'standard' levels. E.g. 500, 400, 300 mb et seq. I'll definitely load the software you used and have a play . Many thanks, J
You're amazing!! Thanks for all the help and ideas. I really appreciate your expertise.
Thank you for your nice comment, appreciate it 🙏
Been using SDR Console V3. Can't use NFM directly because of some of the default settings- so just choose WFM and make a 6 kHz filter.
Thank for sharing this 🙏
Yes that did the trick! I was receiving but no decodes. Now its working!
Thanks for a very informative and easy to follow video. I had been meaning to have a look at weather balloons for some time and this was the trigger to get on and have a go myself. I have had some really good success using a combination of SMART IV RTL-SDR; HD-SDR and homebrewed HB9CV .. which I have to use indoors! Have recorded data from the Larkhill 10:30Z launched balloon over several days and used Excel to produce some simple plots and wind rose. Well done!!
Thank you for showing me this, I'm able to track the ballons that are released in my area twice a day now.
Brilliant, must have a play with this. Thank you
Youre welcome :-)
Thx. for great and most educational videos in ham radio comunity.
You’re most welcome, thank you for watching 🙏
Exactly my HF radio transmitter. Intrigue me because it was a h f but I just found out today it was used on weather balloon 70 volt miniature electron tube and another tube.. that's a little larger now I need to find out what they did in 1950s compared to what they do now and try to figure out what the radio show that I'm getting actually did was it altitude? Wind speed? I'm new to this but I'm going to learn it
👍 brilliant, interesting, thanks. I have added this to list of projects. I am located near an airport and reckon should be able to track the balloons they launch. This would also be a good excuse to make that 2m/70cm log periodic I have been thinking about - should nicely cover the met balloon frequencies.
You’re welcome, I was quite excited when I started to decode them, great hobby this! 👍
Thanks for this video.
Just started to receive these balloons as they mostly fly right up to my location when release in Essen/Germany.
Cheers es vy73 de DL4DE.
You’re welcome , thanks for watching 🙏
I wonder how often the weather bureau launch these balloons and I wonder if every country do this as a standard weather monitoring. Very entertaining video once again and give me more stuff to look at 😅 Thank you
depending on where you live you can look at radiosondy.info to look if there's some city near you that launches weather balloons
3 PER DAY here for our NWS offices
@@crazystuffproduction wow, 1 per day here..... at 4am
Great video ! You make it look so easy !
these are put up in the air all over the world atleast 3 time a day, atleast here in the usa, a min of 3 per day, more if weather is harsh,
thanks for the tutorial , my advice go for a job as a teacher ;)
You're welcome!
Actually, I used to work in Technical Training, for about 20 years :)
@@TechMindsOfficial i wish u were my teacher back in school , maybe i passed my exam then ;)
A 1950 they use a 70 volt electron tubes miniature of course one was a little bit bigger and we'll work on lesser voltages.. I just saying was a.m. HF and
I probably did not do as much as I do now but it's still cool
I’m going to try this what’s the most popular frequency to try look forward to your reply Paul
In Orpington Kent
A transmission range of 600km+ @90,000ft isn't uncommon in Australia.
Tbh I did think that the transmission range quoted on the RS41 specs was a little low, with such a great height I’m sure it would go so much further.
I am doing a weather balloon project for school and i was wondering where i would purchase a raidosonde or is there a better option for tacking the balloon?
Check out this website for more information on balloon tracking your own balloons. habhub.org
Please explain VB audio cable.
amazing video
Thank you Asad! 🙏
Is a dipole good enough for receiving?
no
it is way easier to do it with a esp32 433 mhz lora module
a new version of this software has been released with new features
Excellent! Do you know if the US is still using 1681 Mc?
I’m not sure, maybe someone else can answer that. Thanks for watching 🙏
Tech Minds Many sites in the US are using 1680 MHz radiosondes (usually Lockheed Martin LMS6 sondes), but they are slowly transitioning to using the 400 MHz band. Many sites in the US are using the 400 MHz band already, using a combination of Vaisala RS41 and a 400 MHz variant of the Lockheed Martin LMS6.
I followed the connection instructions you show with VB Audio Cable using SDRSharp, but only get connection fail messages from RS41. I wrote the RS41 developer but never heard back. Can't figure out why the VB Audio Cable connection does not work.
I just ordered a 1950s New Old Stock weather balloon radio transmitter high frequency military radio transmitter.. I mainly ordered it because it's a HF radio but now I want to know what these things can do and did do at that time and we'll do now I see you're using a waterfall that is cool
Have tried to get this up and going. Have RSP1A , RSPUNO, Virtual audio cable...
The Tracker shows preamble , but will not decode. The radiosonde I am looking to see is a RS41SGP
Any ideas as to what I am screwing up ??
With SDRuno you have to set it on WFM an narrow the filter afterwards.
For UK balloons, Is there a published schedule for when these are launched and from where? or is it just down to luck to come across one?
Try this: radiosonde.eu/RS02/RS02J.html?fbclid=IwAR1Yktch4QH13dARg8wMGjvhbrxThE5oQoXXmVwQMoFKhnfSURRo7FqjeAk
I can hear one right now on 404.300 (Time is 13:41 UK on a saturday)
Its over near Boston, but its descedning so it must of burst. Currently around 27,000 M high.
radiosondy.info/
@@TechMindsOfficial Sorry missed it, didn't expect such a prompt reply, I'm in N. Northants. so might get the Nottingham or Bedford ones if wind is in the right direction. thanks also for the website link.
Can’t download the software. Keep getting a download fail. Download times out!
If you find a sonde on the ground are you legally obliged to return it to its owner ?
No
Hi mate!
Thanks for great videos! I have some problems trying decoding these ballons.. I have strong signals but the "preamble" light just keep flashing, but no info comes up, any ideas what could be wrong?
Maybe it's not RS-41 Type, try sondeMonior software
Trying to find details of your antenna. Can you help?
Do you know you can reprogram the sondes up to 433 Mhz www.om3bc.com/docs/rs41/rs41_en.html
WAY Cool!
Lots of multiple images when you were receiving there. Is that just the SDR front end?
They were different balloons, all synced by GPS. I thought it was images too, but when I clicked on them they were different balloons.
@@TechMindsOfficial Oh, that certainly makes more sense.
Is this possible using the HackRF?
yes, sure can, check the Mayhem firmware for the portapak or just use SDR Console and the software
USAF: "Dam we coulda used this"
hey why did you not show the graphics that u can look at with the software u had
Ummm not sure which graphics you mean Andrew, which graphics are you referring to ?
@@TechMindsOfficial THE PROGRAM YOU USE TO DECODE THE RADIOSONE ALSO HAS GRAPHICS IF U LOOK IT UP BY THE CLOG WHEEL IT BE NICE IF YOU WOULD SHOW IT TO PEOPLE SO THEY KNOW THERE IS MORE THAN JUST FOLLOW WERE IT GOES THEY ALSO CAN GET THE DATA FROM IT AND SEE WHAT THE WEATHER PEOPLE SEE AS WELL
I'm a little late but I have tried this out and it doesn't work, Not because of this video. I have received them here In North Carolina but I believe it is operating in a different mode than RS41 so I cannot decode it. But a question I have is has anyone found a U.S. launch schedule/live tracker so I know when an RS41 is released? Besides that, Great Video! :)
Try SondeMontior software, I believe that decodes other types of Sondes.
@@TechMindsOfficial Ok thank you, I will give it a try. Do you know of any trackers for the United States? I seen that one for Switzerland but not any other ones.
Unfortunately not, I’m from the UK so I’m not too sure about US launches. Have a look through the comments though, I think some one mentioned something about US launches.
@@TechMindsOfficial Alrighty I will look. Thanks for helping me and again good content! Keep it up 👍
@@kaseelee6994 Auto RX github.com/projecthorus/radiosonde_auto_rx/tree/master/auto_rx/autorx
I want to try this, but nobody is launching weather balloons near me anytime soon
What part of the world do you live?
US
@@MrC-Hacking There are many radiosonde launch sites in the US! However a lot of US sites are using 1680 MHz sondes, but are slowly transitioning to the 400 MHz band. While the 1680 MHz sondes are a bit of a pain to receive (need a preamp and an antenna with gain, like a dish), the 400 MHz sondes are surprisingly easy to RX. However, many US sites are using LMS6 sondes which are not decodable by the software mentioned in this video. radiosonde_auto_rx will decode these however.
i'm searching everywhere to see if anyone was close enough to the chinese balloon to sdr it.
Should have a look at this software github.com/projecthorus/radiosonde_auto_rx/wiki
I will take a look, Thank you 🙏
You forget to censor some important things. Please censor the tracking data. I managed to find your house with it. (Street view is rather old, but I think I was able to find your house. I'm sorry for stalking you. ) I won't do anything to your data and will probably just forget it, but there might be some people with bad intentions. Please protect your privacy. Otherwise it's an awesome video. Thank you, I am getting up early tomorrow to receive some radiosonde data.
I wouldn’t worry about it, the lat/long I use in my videos is around 1 Mile away :)
@@TechMindsOfficial Ok, but please watch out. There are many crazy people out there.
I appreciate you pointing this out :) Whatcthe crazy ones don’t realise is that I’m one of them haha. Cheers mate! 😁
Odebrane z odległoosci 530 km
Anyone trying to track china balloon in America.
No no