A remarkable group of young hams and science enthusiasts have formed the New England Weather Balloon Society and will be launching "HABGab 2023" on an upcoming weekend. In addition to an amateur FM repeater, HABGab payloads include several student built aeronautical experiments. Presently the weather forecast looks good for Sunday 16 July and a large fraction of the US States of Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island are expected to be line of sight to the experiment for use of the crossband 2m up/70cm down FM repeater.

Keep an eye on https://nescitech.org/clubs/newbs/habgab-launch/ for updates on the specifics of the launch time as well as details of the frequencies to use for the repeater.

This effort is supported by the New England Science and Technology STEM education center as well as the ARRL Foundation.

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