#360 Tracking and Chasing Weather Balloons with TTGO LoRa Board and Raspberry Pi. Fun and Adventure

Meeting strangers 101: Nowhere at night, shout "Hello guy with the swiss accent" and everything will be alright.

You really made me laugh! I did not expect that you will go out in the woods at night to chase the fallen balloons! I really admire your work! You really inspire me!

Thank you Andreas for this hack of Meteo Balloon, this is very interresting and I will make my own receiver. I'm the President of the association Swiss-Strato in Lausanne and we send Balloon for school or for experimental purpose. I develop my own LoRa tracking baord. The last flight was this week and we try to measure radioactivity with a simple geiger counter. If one day you want to do you own balloon launch, fell free to contact us. We are a small team with many experiences for predicting and tracking. We will be very happy to share with you and your community the launch and the hunt.

Always a pleasure to watch your videos! As a young swiss engineer, it give me a lot of ideas to try in my workshop!

You're a mind-reader!. Just arrived a RTL-SDR dongle, and found an old Raspi at home. Thank you Mr. Spiess. Let the chase begin...

Many thanks for your inspirational videos - particularly this one. After two previous unsuccessful attempts I finally recovered one. Whether climbing through hedges and wading across swollen streams is a suitable hobby for a retired gentleman only time will tell. My wife says not, but of course ...I have now tasted blood!

I really enjoyed this video. I remember finding a weather balloon in the early 70's while doing my 5:00AM morning newspaper delivery in Texas. It was so exciting and I will never forgot. Of course, I took it apart to inspect. In those days, a cloth bag with return postal instructions was included. I bagged up and returned the remains after a few days.

I love explaining your videos to my 7 year old daughter. About the planets atmosphere and his different layers, air pressure and more in relation to weather balloons. Thanks

You are the guy I wish I had for a neighbor. What great fun.

Very entertaining video, this search for weather balloons is high tech geocaching.

Have had my first successful retrieval last night!! The balloon burst at 36000m and I was lucky enough to watch it hit the ground! The nice thing about my latitude and time zone is I get 2 launches during full sun (for half the year). Thanks again for the quality introduction to a fun hobby. My kids make great navigators😉

That was fun. I was in the ham radio club when in college 50+ years ago. I remember doing some hidden transmitter hunts with portable receivers and little yagi antennas. You are doing a high tech version of the same thing. However it was easier for us flat landers in the USA and we did not put the transmitters high in trees. i enjoy your channel. Good work, well organized, well presented.

Thank you Andreas for again digging a really interesting topic "around sensors and microcontrollers". The more I dive into the things you spend your time on, the more I consider to finally get this amateur radio license thing done.

Fun project! Thanks!

Great project !!!! Thanks for that dear Andreas !!! Stay safe.

Thanks for the inspiration! I retrieved my first radiosonde a few days ago. Great fun!

Thanks to this guide, i will make my own tracker, thank you. There is a realistic change that we meet while hunting. I am from Maisprach :-)

Wonderful video I am going to build my ground station today. Thank you for a lovely video

Very nice Video Andreas. When you shut off the sonde asap then you have very good AA batteries for your TV remote controller right from the near space....what is really cool.

Impressive build, and simple! Thanks for sharing :-)