[Vk5-wx-sonde] This mornings Sonde.

[Paul Roehrs]

Now that I am home using my computer instead of my antique Nokia Windows 
Phone I can see what happened.

Sorry Liam for messing up your day.  I was at my son in laws place near 
Kersbrook intending to help him out preparing for the fire season.  I 
had told him about WX sondes and tuned up the frequency on my radio and 
noticed it was very strong.  So I got out my trusty old windows phone 
and got up a limited view of habhub which after lots of messing around 
finally gave me the predicted position of the sonde landing which just 
happened to be just up the road.  So as I had DF gear on board we set of 
to see if we could find it.  The signal dropped out as we headed towards 
it but we got a strong signal on Mt Gawler Road and stopped at the 
nearest fire track and got out the DF gear.  Checking any progress on 
habhub was not very practical as it required finding the shadiest spot 
we could find to read the screen.  From the last predicted position we 
expected it to be in the scrub but then as we went down the fire track 
it didn't take much to work out that it was south of the fire track so 
we crossed over an old low fence, with no sign of a farmhouse and got a 
very strong signal. We soon found it, picked it up, turned it off, went 
back to the fire track, found a shady spot and sent a hurried text to 
say it had been recovered.  We were quite surprised that we did not see 
anybody else tracking it.  By the way with my limited view of habhub on 
the phone the only way I can get it to see sondes is to edit the address 
line which includes the query and then take out the ! before RS so all I 
get on it is sondes.   I also do not get to see who is supplying the 
tracking data.  I have to edit the address line as I cannot get the 
query field to show like it does on my computer.

The only reason I put "Competition" in my email was because in a recent 
email Mark said he wanted some competition this weekend.  I also only 
saw the email that Liam was out chasing was when I got home.  One day I 
must do something about updating my phone, but one step at a time.

Hope there are no hard feelings.

73

Paul

VK5NE