[SixClub] FYI!! Listen to the 6m downlink!!

[Chris Boone]

Hope you can listen in..We fly in the morning!!

Chris
WB5ITT
FAA Coodinator, BLT-27

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew.MacAllister at emerson.com
> [mailto:Andrew.MacAllister at emerson.com]
> Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2011 3:11 PM
> To: blt at stevens.com
> Subject: RE: [BLT] ANDY!!!!
> 
> Hi Chris 
> 
> Thanks for fielding the FAA questions!
> 
> We are GOOD TO GO this Saturday at 10 AM!
> 
> Prep begins at 8:30 AM at the most-southern hanger - Predator SkyTrails.
> Airport office is usually not open until 9 AM.
> 
> Primary balloon is a Totex 1500 gr.
> 
> All payloads have been painted with a light coat of ORANGE paint.
> 
> No antennas extend below the bottom payload - it has a camera aimed
> straight down.
> Thomas KT5TK did not want any "stuff" in the way of the view.
> 
> The TBD solar-powered payload is now a CW beacon on 28.322 MHz with
> internal telemetry for power consumption and temperature running 30-50
> mW.
> 
> The 6M AM transmitter has been tweaked for ~0.5W out. 50.35MHz out with 2m
control input!!
> 
> C U at the Wharton Municipal airport (Wharton Intergalactic Spaceport ;)!
> 
> Andy W5ACM
 http://www.w5acm.net/b27.html with all the info!!!