Hacking Radiosondes?

[Terry Dawson]

Phil Allison wrote:

How would you go about finding one to hack?

** You buy them on eBay - like everything else.

Old, excess stock and no doubt defective units turn up at government
auctions and hence later on eBay.

No fun buying them, anyone can buy them.

The thing that makes them special is the finding them, then re-purposing
them. That way they have a history .. a launch site and date .. a
recovery site and date .. something that makes them unique.

You could be the only person on the block with a garage door remote
controller made from the guts of a radiosonde launched from ...



Terry

 

[Terry Dawson]

Pug wrote:

flights, the rest being wind only. These 35 sonde flights are released from
26 stations, most doing 1 flight (at 0000 UTC) and the rest 2 flights (2nd
flight at 1200 UTC) [note: the flatfile has Sydney's 2 sonde flights at 0600
UTC and 1800 UTC, but this doesn't seem right as 0000/1200 is used
internationally]. Wind flights occur at 0000, 0600, 1200, 1800 UTC; stations
doing from 1 to 4 wind only flights.

I guess at that rate, and given the potential area of coverage and the
fact that much of it will probably be inaccessible it's pretty unlikely
to just happen across one.

The excel file on the same web page gives more info on the equipment used,
including which stations use gps sondes and which use standard sondes and
radar tracking - note this file is over 2 years old.

I'll take a look, just out of interest

from a visit to the Cobar Met Office last year:
The balloons have a small parachute inserted inside them before they are
inflated; this is to slow the sonde on its descent. When someone in the
group asked the BOM bloke if people ever got hit, or property damaged, he
said that HE had never heard of it happening; [ he was a crusty old bugger
that had been in the BOM for long time].

It would have been interesting to see whether he'd given the same answer
with respect to people finding them, without injury or damage.

It might be fun working out how to track the things, and if the transmit
live data to monitor them.

Terry

 

[Phil Allison]

"Terry Dawson"

Phil Allison wrote:
How would you go about finding one to hack?

** You buy them on eBay - like everything else.

Old, excess stock and no doubt defective units turn up at government
auctions and hence later on eBay.

No fun buying them, anyone can buy them.

The thing that makes them special is the finding them,

** Those launched from the east coast will wind up in the Tasman Sea or New
Zealand.

Snip rest of your vapid drivel.



.... Phil

 

[Terry Dawson]

Phil Allison wrote:

Snip rest of your vapid drivel.

"vapid". I had to look that up. Nice word.

Terry

 

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"Terry Dawson" <vk2ktj@gmail.com-fu> wrote in message
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Phil Allison wrote:
Snip rest of your vapid drivel.

"vapid". I had to look that up. Nice word.

Terry

Yeah, that is a nice word, thanks.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/vapid

 

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"Phil Allison" <phil_a@tpg.com.au> wrote in message
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"Swampfuckwit the Cunthead"


** A bit of Googling turns up some relevant facts.

1. Radiosondes are attached to weather balloons on a long line and
released from a small number of sites around Australia a few times a
week.


Most stations do 2 flights a day, some 3;


** Prove it - you shit for brains, fucking prick.


It's just one of those things I know from work I've done for the BOM.


** So you have no proof you can post.

Yawnnnnnnnnn...............



One site is in Darwin, another is at Adelaide airport while another is
in Mt Gambier in VIC.


Not to mention Newcastle, Coffs Harbour, Sydney, Lord Howe Is, Norfolk
Island, Wagga Wagga, Moree, and Cobar - and that's just the the "NSW"
ones.
Some are also released from navy and merchant ships.


** TOTALLY irrelevant to actually LIVING near one - shit head.

Where did LIVING near one enter into THIS part of the discussion?


** My whole post was building a case.

You saw it as *isolated* points - cos you are an AUTISTIC MORON !!!



2. They typically transmit data on 402 or 403 MHz.

3. The BOM track them with radar and likely use the same radar dishes
to receive the radio signals.


Not all are tracked with radar-


** Yaaawwwnnnnn.....................


You stated "The BOM track them with radar..."; I corrected you;


** No correction was needed cos the comment was only a generalisation.

YOU FUCKING MORON !!



Not all balloon flights have a sonde attached -


** Never said they were - you shit for brains MORONIC PRICK !!


I was simply providing information,


** BOLLOCKS !!!

You were and still are being a FUCKING SMARTARSE !!!!


The radar dish does not receive the sonde signal. Mostly an RB31
antenna system is used.


** So YOU are a BOM employee ???

I have worked with the BOM's NSW region electronics techs on some upper
air sounding projects.


Shit for brains, autistic cunts - the whole lot of them.


You've met every single BOM employee?


** Met up with a few of the pigs and now an even bigger, autistic cunt.

The BOM in Melbourne bought one of my RMS Current Monitors - I bet a
congenital dickhead like you would have no idea what that even is.



4. Data is transmitted for 90 minutes or so after release.


More or less;

** And what does my post say ???

You SHIT for brains, illiterate fucking cunt.


I wasn't having a go at you; I was simply explaining WHY the soundings
usually average about 90 minutes.


** Totally IRRELEVANT to my post and the case being made.

You were and still are being a FUCKING SMARTARSE !!!!



So, unless you live near one of the BOM release sites,


balloons can end up hundreds of km's from the launch site


** Got NOTHING to do with the point being made.


Agreed;


** So - now you have FINALLY actually READ my post to see what it was
about - eh ????

SHOULD HAVE DONE THAT THE FIRST TIME !!!!
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I was thinking of the OP's comments about finding a sonde;


** He made none - you DAMN LIAR.

Have a nice brain haemorrhage - anytime.




...... Phil