Hello All,
I would like to setup a seismometer station in the local mountains of
So Cal. I want it to be an analog station with an audible tone
warble.

Can someone tell me the steps I need to take to set up station?
Do I need permits, license and what else?
Could I use a sensor already buried that is not being used anymore?
How would I find an unused sensor?

I would like to setup a seismometer station in the local mountains of
So Cal. I want it to be an analog station with an audible tone
warble.

Can someone tell me the steps I need to take to set up station?
Do I need permits, license and what else?
Could I use a sensor already buried that is not being used anymore?
How would I find an unused sensor?

I would like to setup a seismometer station in the local mountains of
So Cal. I want it to be an analog station with an audible tone
warble.

Can someone tell me the steps I need to take to set up station?
Do I need permits, license and what else?
Could I use a sensor already buried that is not being used anymore?
How would I find an unused sensor?

Do you own the land or have permission?
Both the government and private landowners dont like
finding strange devices on their land. They fear safety,
pollution, and in my part of the country- secret prospecting.

Ground quality is important. Ideally you'd like to fasten the
sensor to hardbed rock tens of feet deep. Soil attenuates signal
and there is more noiseat the surface.

Could anyone here point to good reference on what the US array
is doing in siting? I heard an overview talk last week and their
effort impressive. They are siting 400-500 seismometers in 4000(?)
US locations, rotating over a decade. Someone asked about permitting
and the speaker said that wasnt a big problem. They have the aura
of being run by big-name universities. Their sites are spaced at
about
45 miles in a grid spanning the US north-to-south. Telemetry is
internet, wireless, or [sat]phone depending on remoteness of site.

Skywise / Brian,
So you are telling me because I am not going to devote myself to
learning everything about this or have a degree in this field I should
not bother?

Pyrrdi...@gmail.com wrote in news:81a531a9-9731-4d06-964f-2955535ca959
@s12g2000prg.googlegroups.com:

Skywise / Brian,
So you are telling me because I am not going to devote myself to
learning everything about this or have a degree in this field I should
not bother?

I didn't mean it that way. Sorry if it came out that way.

From the rest of your post, you at least would know how to set
up the radio part of the system.

The seismometer part would likely be your biggest hurdle.
They're not easy to build, at least one that produces meaningful
data. Sure, you could buy one I guess.

I myself have looked into building my own seismo. There are lots
of plans out there, but they are mostly for simple swinging
pendulum types rather than the nice compact electronic devices
really used.

As for your asking for frequencies, I think your answer is that
there just isn't anyone here who has the answer you need. We're
smart, but not omniscient. (although some here might claim
otherwise, but I digress).

I can certainly understand your desire for this project as I
have at least heard recordings of the warble. I have an MP3
of one somewhere.... looking at it in FFT reveals the pattern
nicely.

I have had similar designs in mind as to what you want, except
for the radio transmission part. The result woudl have been
the same, though. A seismometer producing a tone to be recorded
by computer for later decoding. I would have used the tone method
as I could then use an ordinary unmodified sound card as the
data acquisition device.

Never got further than brainstorming, though.

Brian
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The USGS has all sorts of digital data on file. You could take that
and speed it up to audio frequencies.

As for your asking for frequencies, I think your answer is that
there just isn't anyone here who has the answer you need.

Wouldn't the regulations about polluting the radio spectrum