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• Pico balloon PS-68 - what happened?

  VK4ADC > 11-09-2016, 07:54 AM

  Just before VKLogger shut down for posts, Andy VK3YT posted:
  
  Hi all,
  
  PS-68 is planned for release at 7am Sat 27 Aug 2016 AEST.
  Solar powered party balloon, 10mW TX
  APRS on 145.175Mhz
  Olivia 8/250 with RSID on 434.649Mhz USB (Dial frequency)
  
  Tracking as PS-68 on SNUS https://tracker.habhub.org/#!mt=roadmap ... ay&f=PS-68
  and VK3YT-11 on APRS.FI http://aprs.fi/#!mt=roadmap&z=11&call=a ... tail=43200
  
  Prediction (the red line)
  Image
  
  Assistance with tracking is appreciated.
  
  Instructions for tracking can be found here http://picospace.net/?p=736
  There should be someone on the IRC forum to help with setup http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=picospace
  
  Andy
  VK3YT
  
  What happened ? Did it make it to SE Qld ?
  I try to keep across these but that weekend got very busy.
  
  Doug VK4ADC

• Re: Pico balloon PS-68 - what happened?

  VK4ALF > 11-09-2016, 02:36 PM

  Hi Doug
  it made it the the boarder and then swung east
  The digipeater at Nambour saw it but i did not on Olivia at Yandina
  
  I guess it i went portable i might have
  
  It was then seen by APRS north and south island and i think Bob ZL1RS has an olivia spot
  
  then it went ease after doing a loop over ZL
  
  Theres a few screen shots on my HAB Facebook page
  

• Re: Pico balloon PS-68 - what happened?

  VK4ADC > 14-09-2016, 07:37 AM

  Len
  
  I meant to reply a couple of days ago but missed out doing it. My original intention was to see if I could hear/decode this one if it came close enough but that weekend went crazy.
  
  Hopefully Andy VK3YT will be posting future launches on this forum.
  
  73 Doug

• Re: Pico balloon PS-68 - what happened?

  VK2FAK > 26-01-2017, 11:05 AM

  Hi all..
  
  We don't at this stage think that the Balloon has gone down, if that was the case there should of been some shorter period TX's which were not recorded anywhere. This Balloon has had a glitch or 2 with the TX, so could just be a gps issue or something else. So don't give up on it just yet.....were looking for any signs of life from it, including CW burst indicating its trying to reset, that will be up around the JT9 freq..
  
  John
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