Bill Brown – WB8ELK has announced this weekend’s Amateur Radio High Altitude Balloon (ARHAB) activities.
Balloon 1
Launch around 9:15 am Saturday March 27th
for the Space Hardware Club’s balloon
from near UAH Huntsville, AL at the NSSTC building.
34.73N 86.64WAPRS on 144.39: KJ4NKE-11
APRS on 144.34: KJ4NKE-12================================================
Balloon 2Around 10 am, the second balloon will lift
with a Science Fair camera project:APRS on 144.39: WB8ELK-11
DominoEX22 on 144.36 MHz FM: WB8ELK (top of each minute)
300 baud ASCII RTTY (200 hz shift) follows the DominoEX
(decode with FL-digi under “custom RTTY”
300 baud, 200 hz shift, 8N1)Every 5 minutes the ASCII will be followed by either a CW message
or Hellscreiber mode (on the carrier freq – SSB mode).=================================================
Predicted landing zone is near Cleveland, TN
Details from some of Bill’s previous adventures, on his website http://home.hiwaay.net/~bbrown/ …
WB8ELK home page screen shot
More comments and links to follow…
/;^)
Bill points out that I have inadvertently used his old URL…
When you save a bookmark /favorite for his site, please use http://www.wb8elk.com …..
Thanks /;^)
Despite gusty winds, both balloons away successfully this morning. The first has already landed east of Chattanooga TN. Chase crew en-route. Last heard, WB8ELK’s new flight transmitter was still beaconing on 144.36 with Domino22. Currently I’m recharging laptop battery, refilling belly at FiveGuys, and enjoying the free WiFi..!.. /;^)