[OZAPRS] High altitude balloon with HF and imaging payload Saturday16 November

[Andy Nguyen]

Hi John,
It will be 11am Sat 16/11
Regards
Andy

On 14/11/2013, at 5:28 PM, "John Simon" <jrsimon at ozemail.com.au> wrote:

> What is the time of the launch?
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> John de VK2XGJ
> Thou shall not weigh more than thine refrigerator!
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> From: Andy Nguyen
> Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2013 10:06 AM
> To: Australian APRS Users
> Subject: [OZAPRS] High altitude balloon with HF and imaging payload Saturday16 November
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> Hi all,
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> Our PSB-5 balloon launch will be from Bendigo this Saturday, 16 November 2013 at 11am.
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> The details:
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> - 434.65MHz USB for telemetry and SSDV images. RTTY 450Hz shift, 300 baud, 8 bit ASCII, no parity, one stop bit.
> - HF for telemetry, on 20m, 30m and 40m in alternate time slots. The protocols are WSPR, JT65 and THOR4.
> - Hardware includes a Raspberry Pi computer with Pi-Cam, and 25mW UHF tracker.
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> Balloon positions will be uploaded to http://spacenear.us/tracker
> SSDV images will be available at http://ssdv.habhub.org, or on dl-fldigi if you receive SSDV directly.
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> On the day we will have a co-ordinator in #PSB IRC chat room on freenode.net
> http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=PSB
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> To receive balloon data you will need access to SSB HF and UHF radios.
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> Dl-fldigi can be used to decode THOR4 and RTTY/SSDV.
> JT65 and WSPR requires their own softwares
> http://www.physics.princeton.edu/pulsar/K1JT/wsjtx.html and http://physics.princeton.edu/pulsar/K1JT/wspr.html
> Please see http://projectspaceballoon.net for details.
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> Pre-flight test HF transmissions were received from as far as VK6 for JT65 and USA for WSPR.
> The reception range for HF transmissions from the balloon should be all around Australia and NZ when the condition is good.
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> Assistance with tracking is greatly appreciated.
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> Regards,
> Andy VK3YT
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