In my previous post I looked at weather balloons and sondehub.org, the online tracking site where you can monitor the balloons. In this post I will cover my setup of a monitoring station using an SDR to monitor balloons and upload the data to SondeHub. It is much simpler and cheaper than I expected. Monitoring... Continue Reading →

I've had an interest in weather balloons since the 1970's. I couldn't have imagined back then the amazing resources that are now available to monitor and track them and that I would so easily set up a monitoring station. Why would you want to monitor radiosondes? I have found it is surprisingly interesting and it... Continue Reading →