[OZAPRS] Horus 23 Balloon Flight - WIll go ahead today

[Steve Sharp]

At it looks like it's up and away!

It's making it to aprs.fi and is at 1815m at 11:56 AEST.

Steve VK2ARS

On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 7:18 AM, Grant VK5GR <vk5gr at bigpond.com> wrote:

>  Hi everyone,****
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> A quick update – Horus 23 should lift off sometime around 11am ACST this
> morning. Predictions have the flight lasting 2.5hrs and flying 80km down
> range in an easterly direction from Mt Barker. We hope to hit at least 30km
> altitude so the radio horizon should reach Melbourne.****
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> The repeater frequencies are:****
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> 438.900 MHz Uplink with 123Hz CTCSS (FM)****
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> 144.650 MHz downlink (FM)****
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> Net control is VK5ARG.****
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> APRS will fly as VK5ARG-11 on 145.175 – via WIDE2-1****
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> 300baud RTTY telemetry will fly on 434.075 +/- 5kHz****
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> Chase teams will be VK5VKI, VK5ZM and VK5ZSN.****
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> Regards,****
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> Grant VK5GR (part of the VK5ZM team)****
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