[OZAPRS] PS-61 APRS/Olivia PICO balloon MEL-SYD-BNE

[Rory Deans]

This is fun stuff guys. Watched with interest from across the ditch. Keep it 
up. Ham radio on high!
Cheers
Rory ZL3HB


-----Original Message----- 
From: Ian Bennett
Sent: Sunday, February 21, 2016 9:49 PM
To: Australian APRS Users
Subject: Re: [OZAPRS] PS-61 APRS/Olivia PICO balloon MEL-SYD-BNE

It was a question not a criticism.
I don't know enough about APRS to make a specific call about various things 
and go with the
decisions of the enlightened few.
I'm all for experimentation but not at the expense of the majority.
Andy's reply closed the loop for me.

Ian
VK1IAN

On 21/02/16 19:19, Scott Evans wrote:
>
> Storm in a teacup guys!  The impact would be low to negligible and well 
> let's face it, it's a
> short term project with the sole purpose of APRS!
>
> How many people will track it's progress and get some level of enjoyment 
> and even possibly
> assisting with getting the balloons data back into the APRSIS  😉
>
> Just my deprecated thoughts and please enjoy the rest of your day!
>
>
> On Sun, 21 Feb 2016, 16:27 A Nguyen <an at comms.net.au 
> <mailto:an at comms.net.au>> wrote:
>
>     Hi Ian,
>
>     WIDE2-1 is a globally acceptable path for balloons, recommended by Bob 
> Bruninga WB4APR, the
>     founder of APRS.
>
>     Int the early days of APRS pico balloon flights over the eastern 
> states, some effort was made
>     to check for impact to the network from a high altitude balloon using 
> WIDE2-1, and no issues
>     were observed with a 5 minute TX interval.
>
>     PS-61 transmits one compressed APRS packet every 5 minutes in full 
> sun, and every 10 minute at
>     night.
>
>     Regards,
>     Andy VK3YT
>
>
>
>     On 21 Feb 2016, at 1:40 pm, Ian Bennett <ibennett at tpg.com.au 
> <mailto:ibennett at tpg.com.au>> wrote:
>
>>     Reported from aprs.fi <http://aprs.fi>:
>>
>>
>>     Last path: VK3YT-12>APZ269 via WIDE2-1,qAS,VK3VHF-1 
>> <http://aprs.fi/info/VK3VHF-1>
>>     <path-seriously-bad.png>
>>
>>     This station appears to be flying at high altitude and using 
>> digipeaters, which causes
>>     serious congestion in the APRS network. The tracker should be 
>> configured to only use
>>     digipeaters when at low altitude.
>>
>>     You might want to revisit your path settings ???
>>
>>     Ian
>>     VK1IAN
>>
>>
>>     On 21/02/16 10:44, A Nguyen wrote:
>>>     Hi all,
>>>
>>>     FYI,
>>>
>>>     PS-61 APRS PICO balloon is heading north from Melbourne
>>>
>>>     Solar powered party balloon, 10mW TX
>>>     APRS on 145.175Mh, call sign VK3YT-12
>>> 
>>> http://aprs.fi/#!mt=roadmap&z=7&call=a%2FVK3YT-12&timerange=86400&tail=86400
>>> 
>>> <http://aprs.fi/#%21mt=roadmap&z=7&call=a/VK3YT-12&timerange=86400&tail=86400>
>>>
>>>     Olivia 8/250 on 434.650Mhz (Dial frequency 434.649Mhz, starting tone 
>>> at 1kHz) RSID enabled.
>>>     Tracked on SNUS as PS-61
>>>     http://tracker.habhub.org/#!mt=roadmap&mz=6&qm=1_day&f=PS-61
>>>     <http://tracker.habhub.org/#%21mt=roadmap&mz=6&qm=1_day&f=PS-61>
>>>
>>>     Tracking info http://picospace.net/?p=736
>>>
>>>     Currently at 9400m alt east of Melbourne.
>>>
>>>     Prediction: 
>>> http://picospace.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/NewImage3.png
>>>
>>>     Regards,
>>>     Andy VK3YT
>>>
>>>
>>>
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