Tag Archives: Telemetry
JOTA 2014 – Two Successful HAB Flights
So the plan was for Chris Stubbs to launch on Saturday 18th October and me to launch on Sunday 19th October at Kingston Ridge Scouts Campsite in Essex. Chris was already on site by the time arrived. I was kindly … Continue reading
AVR/Arduino Timing Issue with fresh ATMEGA328p
I’d like to draw attention to an issue I’ve experienced building the latest VAYU-NTX v1.04 board. I had previously built one that suffered from the same issue but I ended up very frustrated and this probably contributed to my having … Continue reading
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
Hellschreiber
One of the real pleasures of having Amateur Radio as a hobby is the amazing breadth it covers. There are so many facets, to it. One facet is the transmission modes available to experiment with. My first love in radio … Continue reading
Vayu-1 Re-launch Announcement
I’m going to re-launch VAYU-1 on Sunday 3rd November 2013 from Shenstone Park in Crayford. Hopefully, all being well with weather etc. we will launch at around 12:30pm. The site is 36m above sea level and so gives nice clearance … 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
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
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
CHEAPO Re-Design
Recovering Chris’s balloon and payload was great fun and as a thank you for doing so, he gave me an unpopulated circuit board of his HAB Tracker he called CHEAPO. I slightly modified this board under Chris’s direction to use … Continue reading