[MOham] Fw: High Altitude Balloon Launch by Venture Crew 2239

[Ray Brown]

  Forwarded from the Boy Scout Radio list...

                Ray, KB0STN


----- Original Message ----- 
From: Keith Kaiser 


Scouts, Scouters, Aeronauts

Near Space Ventures and Venture Crew 2239 will launch a 1500g, Hydrogen filled High Altitude Balloon on Sunday, April 11th, at aproxamatley 8:30a.m. Central time as part of the North Star District BSA Camporee event.

Launch Site:
Smithville Lake, MO @ 39.41585N -094.50503W

Onboard APRS on 144.990Mhz,

Call Sign: WØNSV-11

You can follow the balloons location, altitude and speed from the Internet by clicking on; http://aprs.fi/?call=w0nsv-11 anytime after the launch on the day of the flight.


See http://bsaroundtable.org/wa0tjt.html for more information, or contact Keith at kcscouter at gmail.com

We will also have at least two HF stations operating during the weekend, including examples of digital (PSK31, Hellschreiber, etc), VHF/UHF, satellite and slow scan TV. Join us in person, online or on the air for a great weekend of Ham Radio.

Look for us on all the; World Scout Frequencies found at http://bsaroundtable.org/wa0tjt.html


YIS/YIV
--Keith
http://bsaroundtable.org

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