[CW] Balloon launched beacon...

[Ed Tanton]

 From ARRL Georgia Section Section Manager Susan Swiderski, AF4FO 
<af4fo at arrl.org> :

"On another matter, if you don't have any plans for the afternoon of 
New Year's Eve, the University of Tennessee ARC is planning a balloon 
launch on Saturday afternoon at about 1:30 PM, and they could use 
YOUR help. They're going for the distance record with this launch, 
and the balloon will include a CW beacon on HF, which will be 
relaying telemetry and location information. Feedback from monitoring 
stations will provide them with the data they need to achieve their 
record. The beacon will be on 14.325 MHz (+ or - 2kHz)and will be 
transmitting AA4UT/B every 15 seconds, with the full telemetry data 
given every 4 minutes (stuff like altitude, latitude and longitude, 
temperature, battery voltage, etc.)"

"If you copy their signals, please QSL to www.utarc.org They'd really 
appreciate it."

Note: I'll bet that's ~1:30PM EST . Go VOLs!!!


72/73 Ed Tanton N4XY <n4xy at earthlink.net>
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