[OZAPRS] PICO balloon flight Melbourne - Sydney with APRSpayload

[Andy Nguyen]

Thanks Peter, just a very small APRS tracker.
Regards
Andy

On 18 Mar 2014, at 7:24 am, Peter Dodd <dodd.pc at bigpond.com> wrote:

> Well done,
> 
> What gear is on the balloon?
> 
> Regards
> 
> Peter
> VK7KPC
> 
> -----Original Message----- From: Andy Nguyen
> Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2014 7:13 AM
> To: Australian APRS Users
> Subject: Re: [OZAPRS] PICO balloon flight Melbourne - Sydney with APRSpayload
> 
> It made it!
> 
> The PICO party balloon arrived in NZ this morning, and still wandering on the island!
>>> http://aprs.fi/#!call=a%2FVK3YT-11&timerange=86400&tail=86400
> 
> 
> Regards
> Andy
> 
> 
> 
> On 17 Mar 2014, at 3:48 pm, Gary Stern <vk2zbb at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> 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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