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 […]
“So now that we have a weather station at the clubhouse, why aren’t we broadcasting real-time weather thru APRS?” said John Zaruba K2ZA one day, signaling the start of another GCARC Skunkworks project. The weather station (a topic for another article) was up and running and its output could be viewed from a web server […]
Building the Raspberry Pi NOAA Satellite Station After building the stationto receive the GOES geostationary weather satellite, constructing the NOAA satellite station was a relative breeze. The NOAA series of satellites (NOAA 15, 18 and 19) are much more similar to amateur satellites than the GOES satellite – they operate in the 137 mhz band, […]
How We Built the GOES Reception Project Updated 12/1/18 Building our functional GOES 16 receiver was a process of broad web research and cobbling together the experiences of many other successful experimenters. We found lots of individual articles on antenna selection, software, and many other topics, but nothing that really pulled everything together. Hopefully this […]
