[HoustonHam] FW: ARLS006 Transatlantic Amateur Radio Balloon Launch

[Chris Boone]

> -----Original Message-----
 
> SB SPACE @ ARL $ARLS006
> ARLS006 Transatlantic Amateur Radio Balloon Launch
> 
> ZCZC AS06
> QST de W1AW
> Space Bulletin 006  ARLS006
> From ARRL Headquarters
> Newington, CT  April 20, 2011
> To all radio amateurs
> 
> SB SPACE ARL ARLS006
> ARLS006 Transatlantic Amateur Radio Balloon Launch
> 
> The Project Blue Horizon 5 high-altitude transatlantic balloon is
> scheduled for launch, weather permitting, at 0400 UTC (midnight
> EDST) Friday, April 22, from Oswego, New York. The weather forecast
> for launch time calls for clear to partly cloudy conditions.
> 
> The Project Blue Horizon team is attempting to break current Amateur
> Radio high-altitude balloon records for distance (3361.81 miles) and
> duration (49 hours, 45 minutes). The payload will be carried beneath
> a 54,000 cubic foot capacity helium-filled balloon cruising between
> 85,000 and 100,000 feet.
> 
> Amateurs worldwide are encouraged to monitor the N2XE CW telemetry
> beacons at 7.1023 and 10.1466 MHz. The balloon is also equipped with
> an APRS beacon at 144.39 MHz using the call sign KC2ZJH. Amateurs
> can send reports via e-mail to PBH15.data at gmail.com.
> 
> More information about the program, including the latest projected
> flight path, is at the Project Blue Horizon website at,
> http://www.projectbluehorizon.com.  Launch and flight updates will
> also be available on Twitter at, http://twitter.com/#!/PBH5 .
> NNNN
> /EX