[K3PZN-List] SimSat-4 Flight Announced

[Curt Milton]

Pat 

I would contact our ARRL Section Manager and get the flight plan announced in his mailing.  It would be nice if MDC QSO party mobile ops know to listen for your payload !  

I guess winds at lower altitude is TBD, as compared to jet stream.  I can pass the info to Page (who hosts the QSO party and will be mobile around Hagerstown) if in my imagination your vehicle can make it over south mountain!  Maybe it can!  

73 curt


--- On Thu, 8/6/09, Kilroy, Patrick L. (GSFC-5680) <patrick.l.kilroy at nasa.gov> wrote:

> From: Kilroy, Patrick L. (GSFC-5680) <patrick.l.kilroy at nasa.gov>
> Subject: [K3PZN-List] SimSat-4 Flight Announced
> To: "k3pzn-list at mailman.qth.net" <k3pzn-list at mailman.qth.net>
> Date: Thursday, August 6, 2009, 5:45 PM
> A High-Altitude Balloon Experiment To
> Fly 
> in our local area.  (Or, "take an hour 
> break from the Maryland QSO Party fun".  
> Note: the PICetSat II will be roving 
> across Md county lines.  Don't miss it!)  
> 
> HERE IS the link with fun flight facts, as 
> promised! . . . 
> 
>        http://patkilroy.com/simsat/4/  
> 
> If the weather is bad, or we are not ready, 
> then we will announce it on the VHF net this 
> Saturday morning (K3PZN/R).  
> 
> Any make up date is To Be Determined, but, 
> let it be known, we will be flying these 
> experiments on a semi-regular basis through 
> October and beyond.  
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Pat
> N8PK
> 
> from
> Century Mission Control Center
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kilroy, Patrick L. (GSFC-5680)
> Sent: Wednesday, August 5, 2009 10:51 AM
> Subject: K3PZN: PICetSat II Maiden Voyage To Be Announced
> 
> I HOPE TO announce in the next 48 hours 
> SimSat-4, a test flight of the PICetSat II 
> module to occur no earlier than this 
> Saturday morning, 8:00 A.M. EDT.  
> 
> I hope to put up a web page with the facts 
> and send you the link.  For now, the downlink 
> will be on about 434.000 MHz FM in about 
> 10 WPM CW with a complete frame being sent 
> every 104 seconds including a rest period.  
> Our code reader of choice is either GetCW or 
> FLdigi, found on the web.  With these you 
> may employ a "save to text" file function 
> to capture data.  
> 
> I am looking for volunteers to copy the 
> telemetry live and report back to me 
> your TIMESTAMPED log results.  We will 
> use the K3PZN/R on 145.410 of Westminster, 
> Maryland to coordinate our efforts.  
> 
> More info to follow later.  (The launch 
> team is VERY busy right now.)  Thank you!  
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Pat Kilroy
> N8PK
> 
> 
> -----------------------------------------
> Mr. Patrick L. Kilroy
> Flight Systems Integration and Test (I&T)
> Building 5, Mail Code 568
> NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
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> Phone: 301-286-1984
> E-mail: Patrick.L.Kilroy at nasa.gov
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