[SMCARA] FW: ARLS006 Transatlantic Amateur Radio Balloon Launch

[Mike Hasel]

Something that might be of  interest this weekend.

73s
Mike
N3KUN
 

-----Original Message-----
From: ARRL Web site [mailto:memberlist at www.arrl.org] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2011 2:10 PM
To: mhasel at locustplainsfarm.com
Subject: ARLS006 Transatlantic Amateur Radio Balloon Launch

SB SPACE @ ARL $ARLS006
ARLS006 Transatlantic Amateur Radio Balloon Launch

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Space Bulletin 006  ARLS006
>From ARRL Headquarters
Newington, CT  April 20, 2011
To all radio amateurs

SB SPACE ARL ARLS006
ARLS006 Transatlantic Amateur Radio Balloon Launch

The Project Blue Horizon 5 high-altitude transatlantic balloon is scheduled
for launch, weather permitting, at 0400 UTC (midnight
EDST) Friday, April 22, from Oswego, New York. The weather forecast for
launch time calls for clear to partly cloudy conditions.

The Project Blue Horizon team is attempting to break current Amateur Radio
high-altitude balloon records for distance (3361.81 miles) and duration (49
hours, 45 minutes). The payload will be carried beneath a 54,000 cubic foot
capacity helium-filled balloon cruising between 85,000 and 100,000 feet.

Amateurs worldwide are encouraged to monitor the N2XE CW telemetry beacons
at 7.1023 and 10.1466 MHz. The balloon is also equipped with an APRS beacon
at 144.39 MHz using the call sign KC2ZJH. Amateurs can send reports via
e-mail to PBH15.data at gmail.com.

More information about the program, including the latest projected flight
path, is at the Project Blue Horizon website at,
http://www.projectbluehorizon.com.  Launch and flight updates will also be
available on Twitter at, http://twitter.com/#!/PBH5 .
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