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

[Mark Jessop]

The vehicle data gaps are mainly a result of some cars not having very 
good 3G antennas.

The 1970 dates are just a problem with the software, one we haven't 
bothered to fix yet, as it doesn't really matter much.

- Mark VK5QI

On 15/04/12 2:32 PM, VK6BMW wrote:
> Well done. Looks like fun, I have been following the track for about 
> an hour.
> Did you get the two landing paddocks especially ploughed for the event 
> ( guess the Google sat image is out of date Hi ).
> Seemed to be a lot of gaps in the data from the vehicles ?? 1970 
> dates, no speed and incorrect height ? Is this all a matter of 
> calibration or a data corruption problem due to congestion ?
> Balloon must have been flying VFR Smile it seemed to follow the road 
> for you.
> Congratulations
> Richard Grocott
> VK6BMW
> *From:* Steve Sharp <mailto:sharpst at gmail.com>
> *Sent:* Sunday, April 15, 2012 9:57 AM
> *To:* Australian APRS Users <mailto:ozaprs at aprs.net.au>
> *Subject:* Re: [OZAPRS] Horus 23 Balloon Flight - WIll go ahead today
> At it looks like it's up and away!
> It's making it to aprs.fi <http://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 
> <mailto:vk5gr at bigpond.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi everyone,
>
>     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.
>
>     The repeater frequencies are:
>
>     438.900 MHz Uplink with 123Hz CTCSS (FM)
>
>     144.650 MHz downlink (FM)
>
>     Net control is VK5ARG.
>
>     APRS will fly as VK5ARG-11 on 145.175 -- via WIDE2-1
>
>     300baud RTTY telemetry will fly on 434.075 +/- 5kHz
>
>     Chase teams will be VK5VKI, VK5ZM and VK5ZSN.
>
>     Regards,
>
>     Grant VK5GR (part of the VK5ZM team)
>
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