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

Tue Feb 23 13:52:16 AEDT 2016

I've been running the Eastern Vic igate for about 15years, (VK3VHF-1) and
many times I consider shutting down the service, but it's great seeing the
igate being used for experimentation.   A good reason to keep the radio/TNC
and NB running in the cupboard!

keep em flying over Andy

73 all

Rhett VK3VHF / VK3WE

On Sun, Feb 21, 2016 at 8:00 PM, Rory Deans <rory1 at xtra.co.nz> wrote:

> 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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