Very nice project!
Wish you all the best and good recovery.
73, Stefan VE4NSA
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Stephen Smith Sent: September-24-07 2:49 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [amsat-bb] High Altitude Balloon Launch
Lots of fun with the Cross-band Repeater:
Arizona Near Space Research (ANSR) is pleased to announce the flight of ANSR-39. This high altitude balloon flight will take place on Saturday, September 29, 2007 at 9:00 AM MST (1600 UTC). The launch site will be announced closer to the flight date and will be based on winds aloft, tentative site is Maricopa, AZ south of Phoenix, AZ.
The balloon will be a 1200-gram weather balloon, filled with helium. The expected burst altitude will be 90,000 feet or more. The flight is anticipated to last about 2.5 hours from launch to touchdown.
The flight will checkout new ANSR beacons and also have the voice cross-band repeater.
Approximate coverage map: http://www.kd7lmo.net/ansr/ansr_repeater.html
There will be a pre-flight net on Friday, February 18th at 7pm MST (0200 UTC) on the Sacaton Peak,AZ repeater, 447.725 MHz/100.0 Hz PL tone. Talk In Prior to launch / Tracking As required on same Sacaton Peak repeater.
Look for Joe KB7RMZ and/or Louis W7LMW to publish regular flight path predictions over the next week.
The following is the payload frequency plan:
Cross Band NB-FM Voice Repeater Input: 145.560 MHz/162.2 Hz PL tone Output: 445.525 MHz Linked to IRLP Node 9255 APRS when repeater not in use on 445.950 MHz at 10, 20, 40, and 50 seconds UTC time via KD7LMO-11 Landing prediction after burst at 15 and 45 seconds UTC time via KD7LMO-0 Info: http://kd7lmo.net/pc.html
New APRS Beacon Frequency and timing will be published before the flight. Info: http://kd7lmo.net/aprsbeacon.html
New 900MHz Beacon Frequency and timing will be published before the flight.
Exisiting ANSR Beacon APRS Frequency and timing will be published before the flight.
Our mobile cross band Digipeater will repeat the APRS data to the 144.390 MHz standard APRS frequency and thus will be I-GATED to the Internet for out of area trackers. You can track the flight using either of the following links:
http://www.findu.com/cgi-bin/find.cgi?kd7lmo-11 http://map.aprsworld.net/kd7lmo-11
Forwarded by N8DEZ/6 Steve
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