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

Tue Apr 10 20:03:24 EST 2012

Yeah, the voice repeater being referred to is the balloon repeater. Once 
it gets up to 30km altitude, we get very bad pileups!

- Mark VK5QI

On 10/04/12 7:31 PM, Nik Presser wrote:
> G'day Mark,
> As per here... http://projecthorus.org/?m=201204 and in particular 
> this text... /The //Amateur Radio Experimenters Group (AREG)/ 
> <http://www.areg.org.au/>/ will be running net control on the voice 
> repeater as VK5ARG, from the launch site in the Adelaide Hills /
> So when I looked at 
> http://status.irlp.net/index.php?PSTART=11&nodeid=6214 
> <http://status.irlp.net/index.php?PSTART=11&nodeid=6214> then I 
> assumed you might be using 5RSB and maybe linked to IRLP. It was only 
> a guess. And yes I note that the IRLP node is currently down.
> But reading the Horus site again, maybe my original question was a bit 
> of a stretch or a hope, as perhaps the text on the Horus page was in 
> reference to the balloon repeater...??  :-)
> It was only a suggestion and/or enquiry...
> Cheers,
> Nik Presser
> VK3BA
> Geelong
>
>     ----- Original Message -----
>     *From:* Mark Jessop <mailto:lenniethelemming at gmail.com>
>     *To:* Australian APRS Users <mailto:ozaprs at aprs.net.au>
>     *Sent:* Tuesday, April 10, 2012 7:51 PM
>     *Subject:* Re: [OZAPRS] Project Horus planning high altitude
>     balloon launch forApril 15th with APRS and FM Voice
>
>     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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