[OZAPRS] Project Horus planning high altitude balloon launch forApril 15th with APRS and FM Voice
Mark Jessop
lenniethelemming at gmail.com
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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