Category Archives: Tracking
Launch Announcement – [POSTPONED]
[UPDATE 21/01/2014] Due to the wind direction predictions, I have postponed this launch. I will still be giving the talk at the North Kent Radio Society, just sans launch. Watch for launch announcements in the coming weeks. All being well, … Continue reading
VAYU-1 1st Flight
On Sunday 20th October, I set off to Youlbury with my friends Graham, Theresa and young Sebastian to launch VAYU-1 for the Scout JOTA day. In the preceeding week, I’d checked the weather forecast and it consistently said that it … Continue reading
An added boost!
Before I regale you with the full VAYU-1 launch story, I would like to share with you a small success. If you are a regular reader of this blog, you will know that I took the original CHEAPO Tracker design … Continue reading
A Crash Course in Tracking HABs
To simply see where balloons are and to track their course, go to the website: SpaceNear This site shows positions of balloons live with various telemetry. At the top left hand side is an info panel with current notes on … Continue reading
Every 10th Sentence
It was suggested by Kristaps (User x-f in #highaltitude) that rather than interleaving this website’s address with the telemetry for VAYU, I should insert it every 10 sentences sent. I had previously thought of this but didn’t know how to … Continue reading
Launch Announcement
I’ve been invited to launch a balloon at Youlbury Scout Activity Centre in Oxford on 20th October. It will be as part of their JOTA/JOTI event. JOTA (Jamboree on-the-air) is a yearly scout event based around radio communication. It appears … Continue reading
Testing-Testing
I’ve been doing some further tests on my payload VAYU whilst I wait for the new PCBs to be fabricated. This is the prototype built from Chris Stubb’s CHEAPO PCB with an added boost regulator. I wanted to see how … Continue reading
Anatomy of a Tracker
While I await components and other things, I thought I’d show a tracker and identify the pieces. In my very limited experience of HAB, most trackers have common component parts so this one, designed by Chris Stubbs, probably takes ques … Continue reading
Introducing Vayu
So, I have a HabDuino and that will be launched once I’ve got used to the whole set of logistics that are involved in HAB. I’d also like it to do something special rather then just send the normal telemetry … Continue reading
Trackers
Having sorted my login out and designed a logo for this project, I can continue. In the early days of my interest in HAB I discovered the website Spacenear.us This site plots all the current flights of HAB’s around the … Continue reading