How to track & recover a NWS weather balloon & radiosonde 🎈🎈 Ham Radio DIY

The US National Weather Service (#NWS) launches over 200 weather balloons everyday carrying an LMS-6 #radiosonde / rawinsonde made by Lockheed Martin to an altitude of over 100,000 ft. and you can track & follow the flights from home and even find the landing site and pick them up! This is a fun #DIY project that you can do yourself from home and I'll show you how to do it here along with some tips so you can go find yourself a weather balloon & radiosonde! ...and always ask permission before entering someone else's property during recovery! EQUIPMENT USED TO TRACK A NWS LMS-6 WEATHER BALLOON ➡️ 1700 Mhz Antenna: https://amzn.to/2YOI4v6 ➡️ Low loss coaxial cable: https://amzn.to/2Wbzbz3 ➡️ SAW Filter & LNA: https://amzn.to/2K740NV ➡️ Bias-Tee SDR: https://amzn.to/2EzGKoe ➡️ HDSDR Software: http://www.hdsdr.de/ ➡️ Virtual Audio Cable: https://www.vb-audio.com/Cable/ ➡️ Windows Sonde Decoder: https://www.blackcatsystems.com/softw... ➡️ Sonde Monitor: https://www.coaa.co.uk/sondemonitor.htm ************************************************************** To learn more about our weather balloon flights, Arduino based flight computer, APRS transmitter, RTTY radio transmitter, ham radio balloon tracking methods or any of our other on-board technology and data sensors visit ➡️ http://overlookhorizon.com Connect with us ➡️http://overlookhorizon.com ➡️   / olhzn   ➡️  / overlookhorizon   ➡️  / olhzn   ➡️  / olhzn   ➡️  / olhzn   ➡️http://overlookhorizon.com/discord 501(c)(3) Charitable Donations ➡️http://overlookhorizon.com/donate ➡️https://donorbox.org/olhzn ➡️https://paypal.com/fundraiser/charity... ➡️https://smile.amazon.com/ch/82-3099711 Shop & see the weather balloon equipment we use: ➡️http://overlookhorizon.com/shop ➡️http://overlookhorizon.com/shirts ➡️http://overlookhorizon.com/photos Giveaway Rules No Purchase Necessary. Purchase/donation does not enhance chance of winning. Void where prohibited or restricted by law. Valid only during the live broadcast. Official Rules: http://olhzn.com/rules ~-~~-~~~-~~-~ Watch a full flight with beautiful views from launch to the stratosphere and back over Finger Lakes in NY:    • GOPRO WEATHER BALLOON TO SPACE 🎈 Finger La...   ~-~~-~~~-~~-~