{"id":2672,"date":"2020-02-25T13:58:26","date_gmt":"2020-02-25T13:58:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.daveakerman.com\/?page_id=2672"},"modified":"2021-04-23T09:37:51","modified_gmt":"2021-04-23T09:37:51","slug":"receivers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.daveakerman.com\/?page_id=2672","title":{"rendered":"Receivers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The other half of tracking is receiving the telemetry (and often images) from the balloon tracker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The tracking equipment and software depends on the type of tracker &#8211; for example RTTY, LoRa or APRS.  I tend to use LoRa because the receiving setup is simpler than the RTTY, and because APRS is not allowed in the UK, so most of the following is about LoRa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">RTTY<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/ukhas.org.uk\/guides:tracking_guide\">UKHAS RTTY Tracking Guide<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/ukhas.org.uk\/guides:sdr_tracker\">UKHAS SDR RTTY Tracking Guide<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">LoRa<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>For a fixed location, though it can be used mobile (I have one in my chase car):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.daveakerman.com\/?p=1719\">Raspberry Pi LoRa Gateway<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.daveakerman.com\/?page_id=2760\">Windows HAB Base Manager<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>LoRa really comes into its own for mobile tracking, where a simple and tiny receiver can be connected to a phone or tablet or even built inside a watch!:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.daveakerman.com\/?page_id=2494\">HAB Explora &#8211; Android Phone App<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.daveakerman.com\/?page_id=2552\">HAB PADD &#8211; Android Tablet App<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.daveakerman.com\/?p=1682\">Handheld Receiver based on Arduino<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.daveakerman.com\/?p=2683\">Self-contained HAB Watch<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">APRS<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pi-in-the-sky.com\/index.php?id=aprs-configuration\">APRS Receiving<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other half of tracking is receiving the telemetry (and often images) from the balloon tracker. The tracking equipment and software depends on the type of tracker &#8211; for example RTTY, LoRa or APRS. I tend to use LoRa because the receiving setup is simpler than the RTTY, and because [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daveakerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2672"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daveakerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daveakerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daveakerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daveakerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2672"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.daveakerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2827,"href":"https:\/\/www.daveakerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2672\/revisions\/2827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daveakerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}