ARLA/CLUSTER: Speedball-1 , 1º Radio-Balão Transatlântico a ser lançado brevemente

[João Gonçalves Costa]

Transatlantic Amateur Radio balloon to use 7.102 MHz USB

Speedball-1 is attempting to become the first Amateur Radio balloon to cross the Atlantic and it'll be transmitting RTTY and DominoEX on a USB dial frequency of 7.102 MHz.

The signal will be on 7.1035 MHz and the transmitter will alternate between 110bps RTTY and DominoEX. The free software dl-fldigi can be used to decode it.

The launch will take place at 8PM Eastern Time (0100 GMT) from Space Port Indiana, in Columbus IN, in the next couple of days. You can sign up for a launch notification announcement on the right-hand side of the home page at
http://whitestarballoon.org/

HF Payload Details
http://wiki.whitestarballoon.com/doku.php
?id=hardware:radio:hf:wb8elkwhitestarn17

Speedball-1
http://whitestarballoon.com/

Free dl-fldigi software on the GitHub page of James Coxon M6JCX
https://github.com/jamescoxon/dl-fldigi/downloads

Also
http://ukhas.org.uk/projects:dl-fldigi

  

Many UK Radio Amateurs are active in balloon projects. Watch the video "Teddy Bears in Space"- HAB given to AMSAT-UK in 2009. To view go to
http://www.batc.tv/channel.php?ch=1

In the Category field select AMSAT and click the Category button In the Select Stream field select Teddys and click the Select Stream button Or download a copy of the video at
http://www.batc.tv/vod/Teddys.flv