<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Kalibrate won't help you here in SA anyway, as we don't have any GSM signals left.<div>You're better off using the LTE method I describe here: <a href="https://gist.github.com/darksidelemm/b517e6a9b821c50c170f1b9b7d65b824">https://gist.github.com/darksidelemm/b517e6a9b821c50c170f1b9b7d65b824</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>If you're using a RTLSDR.com v3 dongle, then you can probably just set the PPM offset to 0 and not worry about it, as they seem pretty good.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Mark</div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 8:51 AM Paul Roehrs via Vk5-wx-sonde <<a href="mailto:vk5-wx-sonde@vk5fo.com">vk5-wx-sonde@vk5fo.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div class="m_1171914462873427852moz-cite-prefix">Undulating sandhill country with low
vegetation and tidal pools and streams. Sonde was about 2 metres
away from a 4 metre wide shallow pool, but the reflector was on
good clear ground.<br>
<br>
Mark I am<u> slowly</u> working up a tracking system for both home
and field using a laptop and your instructions. I have the
rtl-sdr dongle and I have ubuntu installed dual boot with windows
10, but my linux/unix skills have been unused for about 20 years
so it is rather slow going. A bit stuck on installing kalibrate
but rtl-sdr install went OK. <br>
<br>
73<br>
Paul<br>
VK5NE<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Nice job! Was it in the mangroves?
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<div>73</div>
<div>Mark</div>
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<div dir="ltr">On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 8:14 AM Paul Roehrs via
Vk5-wx-sonde <<a href="mailto:vk5-wx-sonde@vk5fo.com" target="_blank">vk5-wx-sonde@vk5fo.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div class="m_1171914462873427852m_-3104652928866155520moz-cite-prefix">N4021285
recovered. Got there early while it was still
transmitting. Glad I cut a small beam for 402Mhz - it was
needed.<br>
73<br>
Paul<br>
VK5NE<br>
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On 10/10/2018 7:37 AM, Mark Jessop via Vk5-wx-sonde wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Whoops, my station has been down from when
I was doing some testing on Monday... It should have
tracked it almost down to the ground.
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<div>~500m last-seen altitude is fairly high up, good
luck...</div>
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<div>73</div>
<div>Mark VK5QI</div>
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<div dir="ltr">On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 5:33 AM Paul
Roehrs via Vk5-wx-sonde <<a href="mailto:vk5-wx-sonde@vk5fo.com" target="_blank">vk5-wx-sonde@vk5fo.com</a>>
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it is relatively close to me and will probably involve
some good <br>
exercise I will go look for N4021285 at Port Gawler
this morning.<br>
<br>
73<br>
<br>
Paul<br>
<br>
VK5NE<br>
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