[Special-Events] High Altitude balloon PSK

[Gregg Hendry]

Could be interesting.

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Subject: [psk31] Digest Number 912
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>       1. High Altitude Balloon PSK-31 position reporting
>            From: "kd7lmo" <mgray at ess-us.com>
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>    Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 14:48:36 -0000
>    From: "kd7lmo" <mgray at ess-us.com>
> Subject: High Altitude Balloon PSK-31 position reporting
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> Arizona Near Space Research (ANSR) is pleased to announce the flight
> of ANSR-19. This high altitude balloon flight will take place on
> Saturday, June 19th at 7:30 AM MST (1430 UTC)
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> This flight will have an HF-APRS package.  The package can transmit
> PSK31, PSK63, APRS FSK-300, and APRS AFSK-1200 from 160 meters through
> 6 meters.  This system will be useful for any long duration balloon
> flights that will go beyond line of site, for instance a cross country
> zero pressure balloon.
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> For this flight, we will have a single band vertical dipole in the 20m
> band operating on 14.070450MHz. A message with altitude, lat/long,
> ground track, and other information will repeat once per minute
> starting at 00 seconds past the minute UTC. In addition, a standard
> set of APRS packets will be transmitted on 53.53 MHz at 53, 55, and 57
> seconds past the minute UTC. Signal reports are greatly appreciated
> via this Yahoo group or during the flight on the cross band repeater.
> The cross band repeater is accessible locally:
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> Cross Band NB-FM Voice Repeater
> Input: 145.560 MHz/162.2 Hz PL tone
> Output: 445.525 MHz
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> Or out of the Phoenix, Arizona, US metro area via IRLP reflect node
> 9255
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> 73s de KD7LMO