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  • Tracking Meteorological Instruments

    I am interested in tracking meteorological instruments, in particular, radiosondes. Radiosondes are measurement devices that launched along with a weather balloon. Most sondes today relay not only measurement data but also their GPS position and speed at a frequency around either 403 MHz or 1680 MHz.

    Is there any free decoding software available and would it be feasible to decode signals with ADS-B equipment such an USB dongle?

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    Better one to troll around the SDR blogs...

    Around the world meteorological weather balloons are launched twice daily, and continuously transit weather telemetry to a ground station using something called a radiosonde. The RTL-SDR software defined radio combined with a decoding program can be used to intercept this telemetry, and display it on your own computer. You will be able to see real time graphs and data of air temperature, humidity, pressure as well as the location and height of the balloon as it makes it's ascent. Note that if you are in the USA, then this tutorial may not be applicable for you as different radiosondes are
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