[NLRS] Balloon Launch, Sat. August 27!

[Glen Overby]

Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 10:24:00 -0500
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From: Paul Seifert <seifert at cord.edu>
Subject: Balloon Launch, Sat. August 27!
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Hello all!

The Concordia College High-Altitude BalloonSat (ConHAB) group is going to 
launch it's first balloon this Saturday.

The launch site is in the Lake Ashtabula Rec. area on the east side of Bald 
Hill Dam, north of Valley City, ND.  The estimated time of launch is 
11:00am. Landing time should be somewhere around 1:00.  This a is a flight 
to burst altitude, or about 100,000 feet.  Landing is projected to be in 
northern Richland or Wilkin county (depends on what the initial rise rate 
of the balloon is).

The beacons to listen for:
Primary APRS: 145.7 MHz, KC0NSR-11, 1.5 watts
Secondary APRS: 144.390 MHz,  KC0NSR-2, 150 milliwatts
Simplex Voice Repeater: 445.5 MHz, 1.5 watts

The secondary APRS beacon will be gated to the internet via the findu.com 
system.  Click on this link to see it live:
http://www.findu.com/cgi-bin/find.cgi?call=KC0NSR-2

The simplex voice repeater is a "store-and-forward" DVR.  Key up your mike, 
wait for a second, and speak.  Keep it short, as the DVR will only keep 30 
seconds worth.  Release the key, and a few seconds later, it will transmit 
your message.  Depending on available help, we may have a net control 
running this.  I'm looking forward to seeing what kind of range we can get 
out of it.

I'll send out an email on Friday morning with the final Go/NoGo on the launch.


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Paul Seifert, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Physics Department
Concordia College
901 8th St. S.
Moorhead, MN 56562
KC0NSR

(218)299-4612 


FYI - that's Concordia College in Moorhead, MN.

Glen