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Author:  Wilrobnson [ Sat May 24, 2025 7:19 am ]
Post subject:  Wildlife telemetry

Yeah, I was bored.

I saw an odd-looking antenna array a few weeks ago here on the beach (photo-1).

Through a bunch of web-crawling (starting with the search term "wildlife tracking Mississippi"), I came across the Motus Dashboard.

Narrowing the map down, I found the station I had been looking at.

Clicking on "more details", you find the actual station characteristics (photo-2).

A bit more web searching and parsing the station details, lead me to this site, which is kind of cool to explore.

Confirming the freq was listed as 434mhz, a short trip to the beach (I live just under a mile from the sand), and 3 minutes spent searching from 433.5-434.5 revealed the actual freq (I guess it can be varied from 434.0 through user programming) to be 434.205. Loud and clear whenever the big swarm of birds flew close; weak and barely there when they flew away.

And, contrary to Nicky's confident assertions, the only transmitting the station is doing is via cellular for data backhaul.

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Author:  Jim [ Sat May 24, 2025 10:35 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Wildlife telemetry

Wildlife Telemetry:

150.000-156.999 MHz
213.000-223.000 MHz
433.000-434.999 MHz

Author:  ecps92 [ Mon Jun 02, 2025 9:16 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Wildlife telemetry

Very Nice addition to my searches - Thanks

Wilrobnson wrote:
Yeah, I was bored.

I saw an odd-looking antenna array a few weeks ago here on the beach (photo-1).

Through a bunch of web-crawling (starting with the search term "wildlife tracking Mississippi"), I came across the Motus Dashboard.

Narrowing the map down, I found the station I had been looking at.

Clicking on "more details", you find the actual station characteristics (photo-2).

A bit more web searching and parsing the station details, lead me to this site, which is kind of cool to explore.

Confirming the freq was listed as 434mhz, a short trip to the beach (I live just under a mile from the sand), and 3 minutes spent searching from 433.5-434.5 revealed the actual freq (I guess it can be varied from 434.0 through user programming) to be 434.205. Loud and clear whenever the big swarm of birds flew close; weak and barely there when they flew away.

And, contrary to Nicky's confident assertions, the only transmitting the station is doing is via cellular for data backhaul.

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