SV1XV's photos with the keyword: radiosonde

A Hellenic Air Force officer releases a helium balloon carrying a Vaisala RS41 radiosonde in the front yard of the Hellenic National Meteorological Service Headquarters on World Meteorological Day 2023. (20230323_123911) This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License .

Tube based soviet radiosonde. R. Amann, J.M.Cooper, R.W.Davies: "The Technological Level of Soviet Industry", ISBN: 0300020767, Yale University Press, 1970. Caption: An extreme example of delayed innovation: thermionic valves used in a radio sonde, where a very strong case can be established for using transistors. Source: Mashpriborinterg Bulletin, 1970, No. 8, p. 23.

USSR stamp for the International Geophysical Year (1957-1958). It shows a "Малахит" (Malachite) radiotheodolite using four UHF yagi antennas, tracking a radiosonde. See also: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1958_CPA_2181.jpg

RISING TO THE OCCASSION (OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM) : Petty Officer 3rd Class Antoine Giacometti, an aerographer's mate, programs information into a weather data receiver before the release of a weather balloon at a forward operating location June 21, 2005. The receiver needs to be programmed to ensure information from the transmitter on the weather balloon can be received and decoded by weather equipment. (Staff Sgt. Jocelyn Rich). On top of the Vaisala MW12 received, there is an Electrical Storm Identification Device (ESID). www.navy.mil/view_image.asp?id=25576