[amsat-bb] UTARC balloon Launch 10:00 PM tonight (1/3/08)

Some may be interested in this:

The Amateur Radio Club of the University of Tennessee will be launching a balloon tonight to attempt their goal of sending a balloon across the Atlantic ocean. The launch time is 10:00 EST Jan. 3 (tonight)

The balloon will be sending data on 2 meters and will transmit RTTY/CW on 10 mhz once it goes out over the ocean.

Freq = 10.1257

Live Information on mission status and updates to any info can be found on the Live Mission Status button and to download a RTTY/CW client that will forward any received data on 10 mhz to their server go to:

http://www.spiritofknoxville.com/index.html

Jeff KT2K