Congratulations! Best regards.

Fabiano Moser Enviado do meu iPhone4

On 17/10/2012, at 20:37, Amsat Argentina amsatlu@gmail.com wrote:

On May-19 authorized high altitude Balloon was launched from La Pampa, Argentina, reaching 34.000 m, carring UHF to VHF (4w) subtone activated repeater, APRS lu7aa-11, Robot-36 live SSTV, CW, 40/20m CW tlm beacon and 2 video cameras. (Total weight 970 grams) Details (in spanish) on http://www.amsat.org.ar/globo19.htm

During the 4 hours flight, over 200 stations pileup doing bilateral QSOs thru repeater participated using mostly dual band handies, a contest was in place, winner from Uruguay won a dual band handy, participants got certificates http://www.amsat.org.ar/cx2tq.jpg

Payload was recovered from a mud on Oct-6 by 4x4 Adventure Group in isolated and flooded area, recovered payload photos & analysis on http://www.amsat.org.ar/rescate.jpg

Video and sound taken by two on board TV Cameras spanned 6 hours, they had been compiled and available to view on http://youtu.be/ib9_zlgN8d0

Experiment is part of Amsat-LU development and field tests as well as users practice of LUSEX satellite http://www.lusex.org.ar

Planned to be repeated during Nov/Dec timeframe pending flight authorization by Argentina Federal Aviation Authorities.

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