[OZAPRS] PICO balloon PS-21 over Coral Sea

Peter Richens prichens at iinet.net.au
Tue Sep 23 21:39:26 EST 2014


Cool Project, will be interesting to see how far it gets and what path it
takes..

Regards
Peter Richens - VK4FSD
River City 4WD Club - Past President 2010 - 2014
Sent from my Thumping huge Laptop


-----Original Message-----
From: OZAPRS [mailto:ozaprs-bounces at aprs.net.au] On Behalf Of Andy Nguyen
Sent: Tuesday, 23 September 2014 9:30 AM
To: Australian APRS Users
Subject: [OZAPRS] PICO balloon PS-21 over Coral Sea

Hi all,

FYI,

PS-21 PICO balloon is over the Coral Sea!

Solar powered party balloon, 15mW TX
Non-APRS but tracked on HF by Olivia, JT65 and WSPR using call sign VK3YT.
JT65 and Olivia on 10.1420Mhz (10.141Mhz dial freq).

http://spacenear.us/tracker/?filter=VK3YT
http://wsprnet.org/drupal/wsprnet/map (enter VK3YT in the call sign filter).
http://wsprnet.org/olddb?mode=html&band=all&limit=5000&findcall=VK3yt&findre
porter=&sort=date


Info at picospace.net

Would appreciate a report if you hear the balloon directly.

Regards,
Andy VK3YT
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