Iridium 9603N Beacon

A lightweight Iridium 9603N + GNSS Beacon (Tracker)

Suitable for high altitude ballooning, asset tracking and many other remote monitoring applications.

See LEARN.md for more details.

See ASSEMBLY.md for details on how to assemble the PCB.

See RockBLOCK.md for details on how to track your beacon from anywhere using Rock7 RockBLOCK Gateway messaging.

See Iridium_9603_Beacon_V5.pdf for the schematic, layout and Bill Of Materials.

See Iridium_9603_Beacon_V5_BOM.xls for the Bill Of Materials in Excel format.

The Eagle directory contains the schematic and pcb design files.

The Gerber directory contains the Gerber files for the PCB. These files have been checked and used to manufacture a batch of circuit boards.

The Arduino directory contains the Arduino code.

The OpenSCAD directory contains the .stl and .scad files for the 3D-printed covers.

The Python directory contains tracking/mapping software based on the Google Static Maps API.

See Iridium Beacon Radio Board for details of the optional radio board.

Vector graphics by Alice Clark

If you have found this project useful and if you are able to, please cite the paper:

P. Clark et al, An open source toolkit for the tracking, termination and recovery of high altitude balloon flights and payloads, 2019 JINST 14 P04003 DOI:10.1088/1748-0221/14/04/P04003

The Accepted Manuscript is available on arXiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/1904.04321

This project is distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution + Share-alike (BY-SA) licence. Please refer to section 5 of the licence for the "Disclaimer of Warranties and Limitation of Liability".

Enjoy!

Paul