Projects
Things I build, track and listen to
Ham radio is just one of my hobbies — I have a genuine interest in all kinds of communication. My station can receive everything from 30 kHz to 1.7 GHz, which lets me explore a wide range of frequencies and find new signals to listen to.
Apart from radio, I enjoy climbing towers to help fellow hams with their work. Photography, especially astrophotography, is another passion of mine, and I love documenting the weather with my camera. I also track — and occasionally recover — BalloonSat payloads built by students at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, which carry experiments to the edge of space. On select Saturdays around 18:00 UTC, I receive ozonesonde data from NOAA weather balloons launched in Huntsville, and sometimes we recover those payloads too, for a small reward.
01On the tower now
Meshtastic Node
A RAK4631 node up the tower with a BMP280 sensor for temperature, pressure and humidity.
TinyGS Ground Station
An ESP32 LoRa receiver in a weatherproof box, listening for small satellites.
GOES Satellite Station
A solar-powered Raspberry Pi station receiving full-disk images of Earth.
Antenna Projects
A QFH for weather satellites, a 1090 MHz collinear and a 7-element satcom yagi.
02Balloons & satellites
Weather Balloon Tracking
Tracking and recovering NWS ozonesonde flights, now fed live to SondeHub.
Weather Satellite Images
My archive of NOAA 15, 18 and 19 images — the satellites were retired in 2025.
UAH Student Balloons
Three student payloads launched, three recovered near Cleveland, Tennessee.
03Outdoors & camera
