Meteo Sondes Hunting and Hacking

Presented at BalCCon2k22 - Loading (2022), Sept. 23, 2022, 4 p.m. (61 minutes)

Twice a day, every day of the year, weather balloons are released simultaneously from almost 900 locations worldwide! Each of them carries a small piece of electronic art called a 'radio sonde'. After the fall sonde transmits telemetry for a couple of hours and it is for grabs ... if you can find it! :) Muddy shoes or freezing outdoors while trying to figure out where the darn thing landed => our idea of fun, and we are not the only ones with this specific disorder :) If you want to learn about the tools required for this stratospheric treasure hunt join us for a talk. We will cover basic sonde types used in Europe, and lead you through the details on how we hacked and re-programmed one of the types.

Presenters:

• Aleksandar Bakalov
  Proud Amateur radio operator and evangelist. When not programming boring stuff for big 'evil' corp likes to tinker with all things digital and a bit of older 'tech' also (like 10 000 old 'pottery technology' trying to mix it with hardware like clay 3d printers and trying to mix traditional arts with digital arts).

Links:

• https://cfp.balccon.org/balccon2k22/talk/PWRRML/
• https://infocon.org/cons/BalCCon/BalCCon 2k22/Darko Obućina - Meteo Sonde Hunting and Hacking.mp4
• https://infocon.org/cons/BalCCon/BalCCon 2k22/Darko Obućina - Meteo Sonde Hunting and Hacking.eng.srt (subtitles)

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