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<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#0000ff size=2>G'day Grant, </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#0000ff size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#0000ff size=2>Nice work on Project Horus
- I've been interested in what you guys are doing for quite a while. I'm looking
forward to tracking it this Sunday. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#0000ff size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#0000ff size=2>I note on the Project Horus
website that you will be running net control through the VK5RSB repeater. I
think this repeater is/was linked to IRLP 6214. Are you going to be leaving this
repeater in standalone mode this weekend or would you perhaps be linking it to
one of the Adelaide IRLP reflectors so that a few of us could also link to the
Reflector and listen in?? </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#0000ff size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#0000ff size=2>You guys are doing a great
job - very interesting. Keep up the great work!! :-)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#0000ff size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#0000ff size=2>Cheers,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#0000ff size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV>Nik Presser<BR>VK3BA<BR>Geelong</DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=vk5gr@bigpond.com href="mailto:vk5gr@bigpond.com">Grant VK5GR</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=ozaprs@aprs.net.au
href="mailto:ozaprs@aprs.net.au">ozaprs@aprs.net.au</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, April 06, 2012 11:10
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [OZAPRS] Project Horus planning
high altitude balloon launch forApril 15th with APRS and FM Voice</DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal>Folks,<o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Here is a preliminary heads up, the Project Horus group in
South Australia are planning on launching a balloon during the WIA Field Days
event on Sunday April 15<SUP>th</SUP>. Lift-off is planned for sometime just
after the WIA broadcast (say around 10.30-11.00am ACST).<o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Horus 23 is planned to be a combined FM Voice repeater and
APRS flight – using the new club callsign VK5ARG-11 on APRS. The FM voice
repeater will be a 70cm uplink / 2m downlink crossband system, like the one we
flew on Horus 9. The frequencies for the voice system will be confirmed and
released shortly. (Just checking some intermod/desense stuff first). The usual
300baud RTTY telemetry payload will also fly (434.650 at this stage will be
the beacon channel).<o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Plans at this stage these are still subject to the weather.
With this payload, we will only release the balloon if it is going to safely
land in the Mallee east of Adelaide, so looking from this far out, it is
possible that the mission could be scrubbed. Having said that, we are
quietly confident, and are commencing launch preparations on the assumption we
will get to fly.<o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>When at apogee, at 20-50W 70cm uplink should be able to
access the repeater from up to 800km away from the balloon so contacts across
a large portion of central SE Australia should be possible. The 2m downlink
should be easily audible.<o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>For more information about Project Horus, check out the
groups website <A
href="http://www.projecthorus.org/">http://www.projecthorus.org/</A> or the
group’s Vimeo TV Channel <A
href="http://www.vimeo.com/channels/projecthorus">http://www.vimeo.com/channels/projecthorus</A>
<o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Regards,<o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Grant VK5GR<o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>For Project Horus<o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P></DIV>
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