[LeArc] WB8ELK balloon from Indiana State Fair on August 15th

[Mark A Garrett]

Time for another birthday balloon...this year it will be around 9 to 10 am EDT from the Indiana State Fair in Indianapolis IN.

Date: Friday Aug 15th
Time: 9 to 10 am EDT

APRS (144.39): WB8ELK-11
2m voice bcn:  147.42 MHz
HF telemetry: 28.172 MHz (RTTY, Hellscreiber, DominoEX5)
UHF RTTY beacon: 433.92 MHz

Chuck W9IH of Indytrax(Wintrax) and Joe WB9SBD of NSS...would love to have you come to the event so we can celebrate our birthdays!!! ,,,Larry WB9YAJ would sure love to have the ace balloon tracker from our first flights tracking this one.

- Bill WB8ELK

PS...the HF transmitter worked great last week from the Indiana Space Camp flight using the Garmin GPS-18....DominoEX really works great with perfect copy even when Hellscreiber is barely copiable. I flew the Trimble Copernicus on it at GPSL and it stopped working beyond a certain altitude (low)....so will have to do some trial flights of that GPS with a datalogger to see what is going on with it.