<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">For the balloon fans among you. At first I thought we had missed all the fun, but Saturday's flight was a test run.<div><br><div>73 Richard VK2SKY<br><div><br></div><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="5" color="#000000" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>From: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica">John Press <<a href="mailto:vk2ygv@gmail.com">vk2ygv@gmail.com</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="5" color="#000000" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Date: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica">14 February 2011 8:17:25 AM</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="5" color="#000000" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>To: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica"><a href="mailto:loki2340@gmail.com">loki2340@gmail.com</a></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="5" color="#000000" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Subject: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica"><b>Test launch</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div> </div><div>The test launch of a small balloon with micro electronics and transmitter attached was conducted Saturday 12th February 2011. Ash VK2XSO was the brains behind the micro electronics. Temperature information was transmitted back via a frequency of 433.815MHz. From transmitted data it is estimated that the little craft reached an altitude of 20,000ft before plummeting back to earth. Despite attempts to recover the micro electronics with the use of radio frequency direction finding no signals have been picked up. The balloon and payload was last seen heading in a south easterly direction from the Tamworth Oxley Scout hall.<br><br>The following link shows details as printed in the local newspaper - The Northern Daily Leader:<br><a href="http://www.northerndailyleader.com.au/news/local/news/general/ready-for-liftoff/2074585.aspx">http://www.northerndailyleader.com.au/news/local/news/general/ready-for-liftoff/2074585.aspx</a><br><br>The Tamworth Radio Clubs web pages will be updated within the next couple of days.<br><br>We are planning on sending out a update every Wednesday to keep everyone up to date.<br><br>Programming and testing of the APRS for LOKI-1 will begin this week. We will be asking for help to check that all parameters are set correctly as we can not afford mistakes.<br><br>An email address has been set up for LOKI and it is:<br>loki2340@gmail.com<br><br>All the best<br>John Press<br>VK2YGV<br>M 0427-681-893<br><br><br><br><br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div></body></html>