[OZAPRS] PICO balloon PS-5, MEL-SYD-QLD (VK1MAT Matt Bowman)

[Ian Mills]

It's a shame I couldn't decode it as it flew right past my digi vk2him-1 
at Gerringong. I also have an ADSB decoder that picks up planes as far 
south as Albury and since this was up at 24,000' I should have been able 
to hear it well south of Canberra and well past Sydney. Oh well ;)

Ian VK2HIM

On 27 Apr 2014, at 9:48 am, VK1MAT Matt Bowman <vk1mat at amymatt.com> wrote:
>> I noticed that the APRS transmission was highly overdriven, none of the
>> Digi's in the Canberra region picked it up.
>> This "may" be the reason for the lack of reception.
>>
>> I was using direwolf for decode direct from the data port of my radio.
>>
>> Just my thoughts.
>>
>> Matt VK1MT
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: ozaprs-bounces at aprs.net.au [mailto:ozaprs-bounces at aprs.net.au] On
>> Behalf Of Andy Nguyen
>> Sent: Sunday, 27 April 2014 9:43 AM
>> To: Australian APRS Users
>> Subject: Re: [OZAPRS] PICO balloon PS-5, MEL-SYD-QLD
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> There was a gap of APRS coverage between Goulburn and Wollongong, it this
>> expected?
>>
>> http://aprs.fi/#!mt=roadmap&z=9&call=a%2FVK3YT-11&timerange=86400&tail=86400
>>
>> Thanks
>> Andy VK3YT
>>
>>
>> On 26 Apr 2014, at 4:03 pm, Andy Nguyen<an at comms.net.au>  wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> FYI, PS-5 PICO balloon is in the air.
>>>
>>> 12g payload.
>>>
>>> 10mW APRS 145.175Mhz,
>>>
>>> 434.650Mhz RTTY
>>>
>>> More details on picospace.net
>>>
>>> Currently 6700m over Lake Eildon.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Andy VK3YT
>>>