Trying to talk to the balloon now through given frequencies. No Joy. Any one know why?
Dwayne KB5YTA On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 1:10 PM john Parmalee via BVARC <[email protected]> wrote: > > *Especially for those that won’t be able to make it to the Houston > HamFest this weekend.* > > *Two Balloon launches with ham gear on board. You can participate. * > > *Live video of both launches **https://zoom.us/i/2815436502 > <https://zoom.us/i/2815436502>* > > *9:30 AM BLT-51 will launch* > > *You can track with **http://APRS.fi <http://aprs.fi/>** search **the > call W5ACM-10. * > > *You can Google APRS to find the site.* > > *BLT-51 will be a floater, designed to be tracked via APRS and glide > across the country, and hopefully even further. The last one went to > Florida in about six hours.* > > *Around 1:00 PM another launch BLT-52* > > *BLT-52 is a “popper.” **Designed to go up as high as possible and burst, > also to be tracked via APRS. Last August a popper flew to nearly 100,000 > feet. “To the edge of space.”* > > *W5ACM Cross-band FM repeater will be in board with with * > > *Input on 147.435 MHz **ß**-----**à** Output on 446.550 MHz no tone, > open to all to work * > > *A WB8ELK APRS Tracker on 144.390 MHz with the call W5ACM-11 will be on > board.* > > *You can track at **http://APRS.fi <http://aprs.fi/>** search for > W5ACM-11* > > *On board also the AB5SS Smart Beeper** on 10 and 20M 14.318 & 28.322 > mHz, the temperature in CW call sign and BL-52. Wach as the balloon passes > through 60,000 feet the Temperature to rise. * > > *The video will also be recorded for later playback as well, and depending > on the size of the captures, they will either be in the groups.io > <http://groups.io> FILES > area https://groups.io/g/Ham-Radio-Tech-Notes/files > <https://groups.io/g/Ham-Radio-Tech-Notes/files>** , or my > website.K5WH.net <http://website.K5WH.net>* > > . > _______________________________________________ > BVARC mailing list > Radio,Radio,Radio We are a radio Club! > Talk it up! On the air about every event, every meeting, every net, every > time, talk about the club, ham fests, events and people. > [email protected] > http://mail.bvarc.org/mailman/listinfo/bvarc_bvarc.org > Message delivered to [email protected] >
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