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[Craig Turner]

Thanks Tony,

We don't have a proposed launch time yet, Alistair wants to go as early 
as possible (wind is calmer for launch) I want to go as late as possible 
(worried about the power budget for a long flight!!)

I will put details of the launch etc in the object status. I'm pretty 
excited by the whole thing. Its only as I was putting it together that I 
really started to see the power of APRS. I will have the ability to 
check localized weather conditions by using WX stations as I travel etc.

I do wish more use was made of APRS for objects, such as repeaters etc, 
as it would help to be able to instantly know what repeaters I'm in 
range of. At the moment I am manually assembling a oziexplorer way point 
file with repeaters using the repeater map at vkham.com, but I think 
some of the repeaters there are not active. I will experiment with 
turning the waypoint file into an overlay file for UI-View as well.

I'll take your advice on 40m under consideration, and it may be 
problematic as I will be running a laptop with an inverter, which may 
create a bit of hash on 40m. I'll give it a trial tomorrow in the car.

I just checked, Alistair's page is down from my QTH as well. It was 
working about 2 hours ago. I'll let him know.

Regards
Craig
VK1HCT
Tony Hunt wrote:
> Craig ..  This is great..
>
> A couple of things.. I could not get your friend Alistair's URL to work
> here..
>
> Just on the 40m frequency. I would sugest something a bit higher than
7045
> .. Something above 7060 perhaps. Try 7110 or 7115 7105 even .. Its hard
> somtimes to find a frequency clear between 7060 and 7100 .. Stations
like to
> run all sorts of nets at odd times on some of those frequencies. 7070 is
a
> mobile call channel and Ive been told off for being on there while
driving..
>
> I guess in VK5 we wont see much if anything here unless its via the
Internet
> feed.
> Have you got a proposed launch time? Maybee in the status beacon of the
> object you could include some info on launch time and wind direction
> expected ..
>
> Tony  Hunt  VK5AH
>
>
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