Amateur Balloon Q&A

In light of the intense recent interest in what hitherto was an almost unknown hobby, I thought it would be a good idea to answer some questions and correct some misunderstandings that I’ve seen in social media lately. So was an “pico balloon” shot down by an F22? The circumstantial […]

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HAB Base and RTTY

Once the HABHUB server is disconnected next month, the map will stop working and you won’t be able to upload RTTY telemetry to HABHUB. However, you can if you wish continue to use dl-fldigi or fldigi to decode the RTTY, and have HAB Base show a map with your tracker […]

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Raspad 3 HAB Receiver

As you may know, several years ago I built a portable HAB receiver based on the Raspberry Pi, with a Star Trek LCARS user interface written in Python. It works well enough and I’ve not revisited the project since then. Instead I developed mobile apps for Android and iOS, to […]

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4G (LTE) and Rural Broadband

This isn’t my usual type of blog post, but if you’re frustrated with slow and/or unreliable broadband, you might find my experience interesting and useful. With a lot of research, learning and testing, we’ve gone from a feeble 12Mbps down / 1Mbps up broadband to around 200Mbps down 70Mbps. How? […]

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Mini GPS Clock

Something I use more often in my HAB trackers these days is TDM – Time Division Multiplexing – where instead of transmitting continuously, each tracker transmits only during particular time slots. Since trackers always have a GPS receiver, this just requires software to sync the transmissions with GPS time. The […]

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HAB Base Update V1.4.0

I’ve released a new version of HAB Basem which is intended for easy management of one or more receivers from a Windows PC. The changes are: Support for Sondehub import via UDP Support for local Sonde data from a rdzTTGOSonde receiver via UDP Map shows the predicted path and landing […]

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