I thought maybe you were going to climb that tree ! Nice job on the long reach rope melting tool !

A handy tool! Thinking of wire antennas stuck in trees 😂 Well done!

Awesome! You should post more about your balloon adventures on this channel since ballooning is heavily micro controller based. Would love to learn about all your challenges because finding the lost balloon is actually one of the easier tasks, don’t you think? Building equipment that actually works in near space conditions (reliably and accurately at -80F)really has its challenges not to mention building decent/reliable telemetry; all of which I’d love to hear about. Great UKposts channel; LOVE IT!!!!

This is not a solution I would have thought of, but it worked! We just spend a week in LX with 8 Hams from PA-land, active on the bands between 10 and 160 (just not 12 this year) Not to many QSO's but plenty of HAM-Fun and good food. I'll be back in HB before the year is over (I hope) Thank you for sharing!

You definitely have some great Projects. Glad you were able to recover the “white box”. Hopefully data is intact!

Problem -->solution. Well done.

It is fun to chase those down, even when difficult to retrieve. I have done several Amateur radio units similar to this one with a couple different radio clubs!

Nice catch! Would You make a video about the ozone module?

Nice to retrieve one you are getting a collection 😀

Thanks Andreas.

Just got my second catch today. Where i live balloons only show up once a year! I took my father with me, a 48/68 years old team. Thank for showing me such a fun hobby.

Thanks for sharing

MacGyver is surely green with envy.

Thank you for your video!

This happened to a friend of mine once. He just used a long PCV and zip-tied a knife similar to the victorinox and tore all parachute cord one by one. It took him 45 minutes. But he did it.

Good recovery

Genius with the soldering iron! I would have been taping a knife to that thing. Maybe a wifi camera aiming at the blade.

Awesome thanks

I am looking forward to the unboxing video

this week's video: how to make your own weather balloon

What a ride Andreas, you where lucky to get it down from there.

Nice RS41 find! I never thought about using a soldering iron to cut the parachute cord off, usually a bit of yanking the cord either pulls or breaks it in my case. What's that large box attached to the sonde? I'm in the US and the RS41's we get don't have anything attached to the data port during launches.

Well done, it looks like a rs41 with o3 sensor. Congrats!

So this is how weather ballons are birthed.

Well there's not many other ways of sourcing an STM32F4 at the moment...

.. and now put it apart!

Lol, very nice catch no doubt!

Have you thought of using the Kerberos or Kraken SDR multi array, has it developed enough for this type of tracking. Antenna would be larger and spaced out more! Any thoughts on an episode about?

Good luck balloon hunter!

See, I half expected that was some propellant-driven javelin you had there... 🤣

Andreas do you know why they don't reuse the sensor module? On the meteoschweiz page they say they are only interested in the sonde with ozone generator. Do the sensors get damaged during the flight or landing?

It's cool, Man! 😎

Suggestion: teardown video. Or neat disassemly ;)

How is the DX Commander? - I am thinking of getting one due to limited space and so it’s the only HF solution for me!

Do you plan to show us the inside of the sondes ? If I got it right MeteoSchweiz does not re-use the small sensor but well the ozon-pump box. However I guess they will not be unhappy if before sending it back you'll have dismantled and re-assembled it "for science" ;-)

😂 Nice job.

That's the type of fishing I like - lol -.

So sad you couldn't recover the parachute and line from the tree but it was really not an easy one. Payerne launch ?

Very cool tool creation. It seems your balloon crossed several controlled airspaces. I hope you don't get into trouble for this.

Necessity is the mother of invention! 73s

Very nice. Was this a standard temperature probe or an ozone sensor?

thats alot of effort for a disposable radio! :P

Why not a simple remote cutter like electric shears?

Looks like an O3 Sonde, doesn't it? I recieved 40€ as a recovery bonus from the Royal Meteorological Service in Belgium as I sent my latest finding back... really nice 👍! Stay safe and happy hunting! Arne, DJ9AS

I'd be very concerned if someone was coming at me with 10m antenna with a soldering iron attached to the tip :-D

Excellent, btw thats called a "fing-long-er"!

I was wondering what happened to that balloon.

sir i want some help in Arduino code about esp32 cam plz help me

Nice! Looks like an adventure I would have enjoyed, thanks for sharing

Definitiv sehr einfallsreich! :D Grüße aus der Ostschweiz.

Ahaha, If the chase of a balloon takes you to the Paris region, notify me and I would gladly climb a tree for you :)

you're the swiss MacGyver :p

„Brush machine“ mein Freund 😁

I've a 12m spider pole, the spiders could have helped get it down. :-)

Nice catch ! It os not practical to chase the baloons with a drone as they do long journeys and the UAV battery will get exhausted !!!

Problem/Solution.

Isch das dä bi Moutier gsi?

How did this video get 251 likes with only 137 views? Something seems broken.