Hello radio friends,
At Sunday 11 september 2016 is a balloon fox hunt event. A weather balloon will be launched with U/V FM transponder, 23cm ATV transmitter and beacon (tone) transmitter. The weather balloon will be launched from the Netherlands, amateur radio stations in nearby - countries have to wait a while to hear the signals untill the balloon reach an higher - altitude! (the maximal altitude might reach 30km it also did in the past!). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Balloon transmitters frequency information: Beacon: 145.450 MHz (100 mW FM/N). FM crossband voice transponder uplink: 432.550MHz downlink: 145.475MHz (1 Watt FM/N). ATV video transmitter 1252 MHz (1 Watt FM, camera looking down to earth). The balloon camera video stream can be world wide seen on the website (see the urls below). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground control stations: PI4RCG 7.080 kHz, 3.650 kHz (+/- 10kHz QRM). PI2NOS 430.125 MHz (+1.6 Shift) ground repeater in the Netherlands (also audible via echolink). PI3UTR 145.575 MHz (-0.6 Shift / 77Hz) ground repeater in the Netherlands (also audible via echolink).
The official balloon fox hunt website and social media websites: https://www.ballonvossenjacht.nl (you can choose the English language from the menu). http://www.facebook.com/ballonvossenjacht https://twitter.com/ballonvosjacht (often with quick update news messages!).
73's Cor PD0RKC