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Articles by Bryan Klofas on Amateur Radio, New Technology, Radio Balloons, and more. Explore and read about his experiments with Radiosondes, Picoballoons, and other Radio instruments. Bryan is a Ground Station Engineer at Planet Labs.
Bryan's Blog
9M ago
They are super easy ... receiver at his house just north of town. Since I wasn't traveling to Fairbanks again in 2022, I shipped him all the parts necessary for the installation. My go-to antenna for radiosonde receiving is a , which makes it trivial to install and update the software. For remote monitoring and control, is the way to go ..read more
Bryan's Blog
1y ago
Wow, this seems cool! The at my home station, so I twisted the dial over to WWV (in software, pretty anticlimactic), and started listening. I barely heard the test signal from Hawaii because propagation that evening was very poor. There was several solar flares over the next few days, causing lots of interference ..read more
Bryan's Blog
1y ago
I'm planning on participating in the to receive these signals, and luckily there is an easy API for the KiwiSDR that will allow us to save recordings from the SDR. group. Over the 30 April 2022 weekend, hams from all over North America are encouraged to record the WWV and WWVH , transmitting at 8 and 48 minutes past the hour. , written by John Seamons ZL/KF6VO, is a simple python program that remotely connects to a KiwiSDR and saves spectrum locally. The output file can be demodulated audio (SSB or AM) like you get from a ..read more