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HAM RADIO NEAR SPACE: PICO HAM BALLOON MAKES TREK FROM UK
TO SWEDEN
PicoAtlas VII, a single foil balloon launched by James
Coxon, M6JCX, on Saturday, October 20th from Suffolk in the
UK has landed some 1050 kilometers or 650 miles to the East
in Sweden.
PicoAtlas VII carried a GPS receiver and a miniature
transmitter running only 10 milliwatts output sending RTTY
on 434.301 MHz USB. The telemetry data from the balloon
transmitter could be decoded using the free software at dl-
fldigi. This program can decode many different amateur radio
digital modes and can be downloaded for Windows, Mac and
Ubuntu Linux at tinyurl.com/8zlo437.
An increasing number of radio amateurs are experimenting
with ultra light balloon payloads, typically weighing less
than 100 grams. Balloons such as these do not go to high
altitudes. Instead they float between 3,500 and 6,000
meters which roughly equates to 9000 to 20,000 feet for an
extended period of time. During the 19 hour flight this
balloon successfully crossed the North Sea before landing in
central Sweden. We will have more ham radio space related
news later on in this weeks report. (Southgate)
BT
HAM RADIO NEAR SPACE: MAY LAUNCH AND OCTOBER RECOVERY OF
HIGH ALTITUDE BALLOON PAYLOAD
An amateur radio balloon project launched last May finally
ended this month with the recovery of the payload.
Members of AMSAT-LU, had launched a high altitude balloon on
19th May from La Pampa, Argentina. The payload included a
70cm to 2m 4 watt FM repeater, live SSTV, an HF beacon and
two video cameras. During the 4 hour flight, over 200
stations made contacts through the repeater.
Unfortunately, while the flight was deemed to be a complete
success the balloon came down in an isolated and flooded
area. It was finally recovered from the mud on October 6th
by a 4 by 4 off-road adventure group.
The good news is that all flight data was retrieved. This
included over 6 hours of video from the two cameras.
Details can be found at www.uk.amsat.org. (GB2RS
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