Category Archives: Ham Radio

Inexpensive Lightning Arrestor

Posted on 2023-01-07 by Nigel VH

I’ve recently been working on a project involving GPS, and wanted to find an inexpensive lightning arrestor. It needed to have DC pass through to power the active GPS antenna, it needed to be able to pass the roughly 1.6GHz … Continue reading →

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GPS Antenna Distribution Amplifier

Posted on 2022-01-18 by Nigel VH

In doing some recent repair and testing work on a few GPSDOs (GPS Disciplined Oscillators), I was looking to have multiple devices running at the same time without switching antennas. There are of course generic splitters, which can be a … Continue reading →

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2019 Balloons Launch

Posted on 2019-06-02 by Nigel VH

2019’s launch included a single balloon which reached 101,433 feet. The flight carried carried a number of student payloads, the 900MHz voice telemetry system, a commercial APRS tracker board, my custom IRIS board, as well as a Raspberry Pi Zero … Continue reading →

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Black Rock 2018

Posted on 2018-04-29 by Nigel VH

After having to cancel the trip last year due to poor weather conditions, we were able to make the trip down again this year to the Black Rock desert in the northwest corner of Nevada. We had a bit of … Continue reading →

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New POES Receiver Setup

Posted on 2017-09-16 by Nigel VH

For the last few years I have off and on run a receiver dedicated to picking up the image transmissions from NOAA’s POES series of satellites. The POES satellites are polar orbiting weather satellites that transmit image data down, and … Continue reading →

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