N2WU Radio Blog

DTMF Release Mechanism for HAB In the latest installment of the USMA Weather Balloon, I will go over a module that didn’t quite make it on. We planned on having a release mechanism for the balloon using a servo and specialized hardware, but scrapped it due to launch concerns. Strap... [Read More]

Weather Balloon: SSTV Beacon Welcome back! I took quite a hiatus from the blog to work finish up all my projects from the semester. Slowly but surely I will keep cranking them out. I’ll start first on my SSTV beacon that we put in the USMA Weather balloon on 24... [Read More]

10m HF WSPR Beacon for HAB One of my more aspirational payloads for the weather balloon used a WSPR beacon to characterize the change in the ionosphere’s height over the course of several hours. Here I describe my methods for installation and the antenna used for the design. Enjoy! [Read More]

OBS / Microsoft Teams Webcam Streaming Recently I’ve been a little tired of some of the rules in place at the Academy. Literally - I keep falling asleep during class. Rather than fix this problem internally (officer development and all that), I’ve decided to outsmart it. I have been using... [Read More]

Phase Synchronization for Ettus X310” I just got a hold of some surplus parts in our robotics lab, so I made one into a quick FSK serial transmitter out of the LM96 /XM modem for 915 MHz. Take a look! [Read More]