{"id":3138,"date":"2018-01-14T11:29:14","date_gmt":"2018-01-14T11:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tsgarc.uk\/?p=3138"},"modified":"2018-01-14T11:29:14","modified_gmt":"2018-01-14T11:29:14","slug":"receiving-radiosondes-or-not-in-my-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tsgarc.uk\/?p=3138","title":{"rendered":"Receiving RadioSondes or not in my case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was inspired by this recent Hackaday (<a href=\"https:\/\/hackaday.com\/2018\/01\/05\/fallen-radiosonde-reborn-as-active-l-band-antenna\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/hackaday.com\/2018\/01\/05\/fallen-radiosonde-reborn-as-active-l-band-antenna\/<\/a>) post to try my hand at receiving RadioSonde messages. A RadioSonde is the box of electronics (Temperature, Pressure monitors etc , GPS receiver, Processor and UHF transmitter) that sits below a weather balloon. Apparently they don&#8217;t go and collect them either so they are up for grabs and experimentation.<\/p>\n<p>At the minute though I am failing to decode the messages sent by the UKs Vaisala RS41 RadioSondes. I am using a piece of software called SondeMonitor and the RTL USB dongle with SDRSharp. Last night I received 4 perfect (I think) signals, one shown below not being decoded \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tsgarc.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/RS41-no-decode.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3139\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tsgarc.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/RS41-no-decode.png?resize=545%2C316\" alt=\"\" width=\"545\" height=\"316\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Further testing will commence shortly as they lift of at 11:15 and become audible at 11:30ish. Wish me luck.<\/p>\n<p><em>Paul<\/em><br \/>\nM0ZMB<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was inspired by this recent Hackaday (https:\/\/hackaday.com\/2018\/01\/05\/fallen-radiosonde-reborn-as-active-l-band-antenna\/) post to try my hand at receiving RadioSonde messages. A RadioSonde is the box of electronics (Temperature, Pressure monitors etc , GPS receiver, Processor and UHF transmitter) that sits below a weather &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsgarc.uk\/?p=3138\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[277,271,273,276,275,272,274],"class_list":["post-3138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-hackaday","tag-radiosonde","tag-rs41","tag-rtl","tag-sdrsharp","tag-sondemonitor","tag-vaisala"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tsgarc.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tsgarc.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tsgarc.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tsgarc.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tsgarc.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tsgarc.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3140,"href":"https:\/\/www.tsgarc.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3138\/revisions\/3140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tsgarc.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tsgarc.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tsgarc.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}