Hello Cor

I enjoyed the event today.Managed to work a few PA, DL, OZ and a /MM station thru the transponder. Copied it well with a signal S9- S9+60db on the TS-790e meter constantly, with fading.

No preamps on the satellite antennas here, 2*7el 2m and 2*12el 70cm crossed yagis (half lenghts from Maspro system WHS-32N).

TOO BAD that some people do NOT like to hear DX, and used it for a local chat. But it worked great!!

73's

Jerry,ON4CJQ

----- Oorspronkelijk bericht ----- Van: "Cor PDØRKC" kenwoodtrx@hotmail.com Aan: amsat-bb@amsat.org Verzonden: Donderdag 8 september 2016 20:34:11 Onderwerp: [amsat-bb] Sunday 11 september 2016 balloon fox hunt with U/V FM transponder!

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

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