[Vk5-wx-sonde] This mornings Sonde.

[Liam Gunning]

Hi Paul,

All good. No hard feelings.

Was a bit peeved at first! But figured it wasn’t intentional as that’s not in the sprit of what we do here. 

I don’t have aprs either. To upload my chase car gps position I’m using a repurposed RS41 sonde that I’ve flashed with this firmware http://happysat.nl/RS-41/RS41.html then turned off the tx so it’s just running as a NMEA gps. I’ve soldered a USB-TTL adaptor onto the RS41 board and plug it into a raspberry pi that’s running Auto_Rx with Chasemapper. Works great! Just like a USB gps puck would. The gps position is uploaded to Chasemapper via the serial gps function. Also works with gpsd. 

Regards,

Liam VK5LJG 

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Liam Gunning
liam.gunning at icloud.com

Sent from iPhone

> On 17 Nov 2018, at 17:41, 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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