[Vk5-wx-sonde] This mornings Sonde.

[Mark Jessop]

One option to avoid having to manually remove the filter query is to use
the URL:

https://tracker.sondehub.org/

This will automatically filter to only radiosonde and chase cars.

Cheers,
Mark

On Sat, Nov 17, 2018 at 5:41 PM Paul Roehrs via Vk5-wx-sonde <
vk5-wx-sonde at vk5fo.com> wrote:

> 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
>
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