Jim "Ham on a Bike"@[email protected] @w3ipa #W3IPA Tim's #AmateurRadio #HamRadio #picoBalloon is like "Judas Priest", "Riding on the Wind" as it makes it way toward India
AI6YR BenIt doesn't help the other tracking map site has not fixed their Google Maps code in a decade. (Google Maps went to a credit system, where you pay for traffic, instead of "free"... maybe more than 10 years ago, and you were required to change your code or get this message). They really should have changed to another mapping layer. #wspr #hamradio #picoballoon
Tim's #w3ipa @w3ipa @[email protected] #amateurradio #hamradio 10m #wspr #picoballoon continues to make its trek around the globe.
Tim #W3IPA @[email protected] @w3ipa launched his first pico balloon for 2026. 10m WSPR transmits. Let’s hope for a nice long trip! #AmateurRadio #HamRadio #PicoBalloon #WSPR #10mWSPR
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Ooh, there are a lot of amateur balloons bouncing around the world right now, actually!
Choices were to order 5 or order 10 boards (!). So, I ordered 5 boards. Enough for 5 balloons, lol. Cost using the cheapest shipping option will be approximately $12.50 for each of the add-on-boards. Will require also Raspberry Pi picos and tiny solar panels. #picoballoon #hamradio #wspr
Going to order the parts for a pico #hamradio balloon. Has anyone tried the Traquito WSPR balloon kits? Apparently you just upload hardware files to a third party PCB manufacturing company! I'm going to try to build one (or probably two... any new project, always buy 2x parts).
https://traquito.github.io/tracker/#jetpack-technical-details
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KFO̸UNKSometimes I feel disappointed that my hobbies are neither computer nor science enough. Tonight I decided to make this plot for band statistics from WSPR data.
I never really liked those solar charts, but this data is actually really informative. Running my station for a bit is the best, but I can also just query for my grid square (as I did for this plot) and it seems pretty accurate.
I had a bit of a deep dive with WSPR beacon work this weekend. I ran test on my own station, and got it band hopping.
It was great to see the results from my own station at different times, and also figuring out how to filter by my gridsquare on wspr.rocks for on demand current local conditions!