The project I am a part of was donated a LMS-6 Radiosonde manufactured by Lockheed Martin in order to record atmospheric properties inside of a tornado. The problem is we don’t have the receiver equipment required to receive the data via radio frequencies like the National Weather Service does. Documentation of the actual Radiosonde regarding sensors is pretty scare, most likely because it is proprietary to Lockheed Martin. Does anyone have any idea how we might be able to receive the data another way. Maybe we could remove the sensors we need from the board, and use them on a board we design?
We could have used hobby grade sensors, but they wouldn’t have the range we need. For example the barometric pressure sensor on the Radiosonde has a range from 3 millibars to about 1020 millibars. There is also a GPS transmitter that we would like to utilize, but I understand that the receiving on our end is going to be the problem.
If anyone has ideas or input, it would be greatly appreciated. We would like to have the project ready to fly by April, but obviously that might not be possible.
If we end up having to use a separate board build, using different sensors, let me know where I can find sensors that would have the same range as what the National Weather Service has access to.
This might be way out there as well, but would there be any way we could get the sensors to talk to an Arduino, or something of the sort.
Thanks in advance!