[OZAPRS] Project Horus planning high altitude balloon launch forApril 15th with APRS and FM Voice

[Mark Jessop]

Where does it say that? You might be looking at the page for one of our 
previous repeater launches.

IRLP node 6214 is down at the moment.

- Mark VK5QI

On 10/04/12 6:11 PM, Nik Presser wrote:
> G'day Grant,
> Nice work on Project Horus - I've been interested in what you guys are 
> doing for quite a while. I'm looking forward to tracking it this Sunday.
> I note on the Project Horus website that you will be running net 
> control through the VK5RSB repeater. I think this repeater is/was 
> linked to IRLP 6214. Are you going to be leaving this repeater in 
> standalone mode this weekend or would you perhaps be linking it to one 
> of the Adelaide IRLP reflectors so that a few of us could also link to 
> the Reflector and listen in??
> You guys are doing a great job - very interesting. Keep up the great 
> work!!  :-)
> Cheers,
> Nik Presser
> VK3BA
> Geelong
>
>     ----- Original Message -----
>     *From:* Grant VK5GR <mailto:vk5gr at bigpond.com>
>     *To:* ozaprs at aprs.net.au <mailto:ozaprs at aprs.net.au>
>     *Sent:* Friday, April 06, 2012 11:10 PM
>     *Subject:* [OZAPRS] Project Horus planning high altitude balloon
>     launch forApril 15th with APRS and FM Voice
>
>     Folks,
>
>     Here is a preliminary heads up, the Project Horus group in South
>     Australia are planning on launching a balloon during the WIA Field
>     Days event on Sunday April 15^th . Lift-off is planned for
>     sometime just after the WIA broadcast (say around 10.30-11.00am ACST).
>
>     Horus 23 is planned to be a combined FM Voice repeater and APRS
>     flight -- using the new club callsign VK5ARG-11 on APRS. The FM
>     voice repeater will be a 70cm uplink / 2m downlink crossband
>     system, like the one we flew on Horus 9. The frequencies for the
>     voice system will be confirmed and released shortly. (Just
>     checking some intermod/desense stuff first). The usual 300baud
>     RTTY telemetry payload will also fly (434.650 at this stage will
>     be the beacon channel).
>
>     Plans at this stage these are still subject to the weather. With
>     this payload, we will only release the balloon if it is going to
>     safely land in the Mallee east of Adelaide, so looking from this
>     far out, it is possible that  the mission could be scrubbed.
>     Having said that, we are quietly confident, and are commencing
>     launch preparations on the assumption we will get to fly.
>
>     When at apogee, at 20-50W 70cm uplink should be able to access the
>     repeater from up to 800km away from the balloon so contacts across
>     a large portion of central SE Australia should be possible. The 2m
>     downlink should be easily audible.
>
>     For more information about Project Horus, check out the groups
>     website http://www.projecthorus.org/ or the group's Vimeo TV
>     Channel http://www.vimeo.com/channels/projecthorus
>
>     Regards,
>
>     Grant VK5GR
>
>     For Project Horus
>
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