In an earlier blog post we described the process of implementing our first version of the GOES16 receiver. That system worked well for about a year until we decided to install a new tower at the GCARC clubhouse that was dedicated to Skunkworks projects. That meant taking down the GOES system and reinstalling it on […]
Radio location services are used in many places including those monitored at the GCARC clubhouse. Currently we have an APRS station that monitors amateur radio APRS traffic as well as beaconing the current weather recorded by the clubhouse weather station. We also have an ADS-B aircraft monitoring station that receives broadcasts on 1090 megahertz from […]
The Skunkworks projects at the GCARC clubhouse encompass about a dozen Raspberry Pi computers along with several Linux virtual machines running on the Skunkworks server. Monitoring all of these systems is a considerable task, so we developed a simple reporting structure that allowed multiple systems to be monitored easily on a Grafana dashboard backed up […]
