Celebrating
20 years in Near Space
: The
April 26th flight worked great...17h 40m flight time - Hellscreiber
worked throughout...RTTY only worked for a few hours. Landing
zone in southern KY near the TN border. Experiment was a 1/16"
continuous vent hole in the nozzle of a 1500 gram latex balloon
to attempt a float condition at peak altitude (which worked
even better than planned). Peak altitude was 107,880 feet.
NEXT
Flight Possibility:
Saturday,
May 10th at (2:00 pm CDT)
Huntsville, AL
(NSSTC) - 34.73 086.64
- WB8ELK: RTTY/Hellscreiber/DominoEX5
on 10.142 MHz center frequency
(tune to 10.140 USB for best audio)
RTTY at top of each minute - Feld-Hellscreiber and DominoEX5
follows
- Likely Secondary
Payload: 144.340 MHz FM (AFSK RTTY)
Directions
to the NSSTC:
I-565 to the Sparkman
Dr. exit near the Space and Rocket Museum.
Turn north onto
Sparkman Dr. until Lakeside Dr.
Turn left at Lakeside
and go to the back parking lot
on your right which
is the rear of the NSSTC.
Oz-13 Flight Completed::
Oz-13: Launched Sat.
Feb. 16th at 1:30 pm CST
(02/18/08 update)
WB8ELK AFSK RTTY - 144.345
FM
Ozonesonde Hitch-hiker
- Ozsonde on 403.2 MHz +/- drift (WFM)
Estimated landing
near Henagar, AL
(NOTE: NEW
DATE HiBall-11 has been delayed until Feb. 29th)
HiBall-11 - Feb 29th at 11:00
am EST
STATUS UPDATE: Originally planned for Feb 9th but will delay
until Feb. 29th.
Location: Columbus
IN airport - Columbus
IN
Payloads:
2m APRS (144.39):
WB8ELK-11
HF RTTY (10.142 MHz)
Flight Path Predictions (TBA):
Click
HERE for 20th ARHAB anniversary talk (GPSL 2007) - Webpage
This year's flights will explore long duration flights including
trans-Atlantic and cross country efforts. I plan to use both
latex and polyethylene zero pressure balloons and will most
likely float between 60k and 100k feet....look for some simplex
and cross-band repeater payloads that will stay up all weekend
long for some great balloon band openings over multi-state
regions.
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