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

Gary Stern vk2zbb at gmail.com
Tue Mar 18 10:04:19 EST 2014


Around the world in XX days ??

tahiti, peru, rio ??

On 18/03/2014 7:13 AM, Andy Nguyen wrote:
> 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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