[OZAPRS] PICO balloon flight Melbourne - Sydney with APRS payload

[Gary Stern]

Presumably the altitude increase & no further signals is a burst (I 
wouldn't think it was out of range at that height yet) ?

GS

On 16/03/2014 9:23 PM, Andy Nguyen wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Another PICO balloon flight is on its way to Sydney from Melbourne
>
> Predicted path is Melbourne - Sydney - NZ
> Currently over Beechworth at 7000m, doing 125km/h.
>
> Payload is an ultra-light APRS beacon transmitting 10mW on 145.175Mhz.
>
> Callsign is VK3YT-11
>
> APRS tracking at
> http://aprs.fi/#!call=a%2FVK3YT-11&timerange=86400&tail=86400
> <http://aprs.fi/#!call=a/VK3YT-11&timerange=86400&tail=86400>
>
> Tracking with prediction at
> http://spacenear.us/tracker/?filter=VK3YT-11
>
> See http://picospace.net for details.
>
> Expected to reach Sydney tonight, then it will be out to sea.
> If the balloon survives tomorrow it might be within range of New Zealand
> APRS stations around 12:00 UTC 17/3
>
> TX frequency will switch to NZ APRS frequency 144.575Mhz once 160.0
> longitude is crossed.
>
> Regards
> Andy
>
>
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