ARLA/CLUSTER: Adiada Tentativa transatlântica de radio-balão em 7 MHz

[João Gonçalves Costa]

" 01h58m - Ainda não consigo receber sinal do balão "
Em nome de Julio Cesar, sexta-feira, 25 de Março de 2011 2:08
 
7MHz balloon launch postponed

The launch attempt of Speedball-1, carrying a 7.102MHz USB Amateur Radio beacon and scheduled for early Friday, March 25 UT, was postponed due to technical issues.

The Twitter announcement said:

Launch scrubbed, problems with HF gps lock and sat modem not hearing satellites. Will fix and launch at soonest opportunity.

Speedball-1 is aiming to fly across the Atlantic and will transmit RTTY and DominoEX on 7.102MHz USB during it's flight. 

The website has a sample track of the path the balloon may take. The map appears to show it could end up landing near Benghazi, Libya.

Speedball-1 http://whitestarballoon.com/

Twitter: http://twitter.com/LVL1WhiteStar/

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

Free dl-fldigi RTTY/DominoEX software on the GitHub page of James Coxon M6JCX
https://github.com/jamescoxon/dl-fldigi/downloads
Also
http://ukhas.org.uk/projects:dl-fldigi


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De: cluster-bounces  radio-amador.net [mailto:cluster-bounces  radio-amador.net] Em nome de Julio Cesar
Enviada: sexta-feira, 25 de Março de 2011 2:08
Para: Resumo Noticioso Electrónico ARLA
Assunto: BALÃO --- Re: ARLA/CLUSTER: Tentativa transatlântica de radio-balão em 7 MHz




01h58m - Ainda não consigo receber sinal do balão

Se quiserem seguir as operações a partir da sala de controlo, têm aqui o video/áudio em directo:

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/highball-1#utm_campaign=unknown&utm_source=5889641&utm_medium=social


Para seguirem a rota do balão:

http://track.whitestarballoon.com/


Informações gerais  http://whitestarballoon.com/
 
Para escutar em directo  7.102Mhz - USB


73 e um abraço do CT1BWI



Julio Cesar 

http://www.aerodromo-cascais.pt 
http://www.pelicano.com.pt/zpistas_in.html 
  







Em 24-03-2011 12:24, João Gonçalves Costa escreveu: 

	7MHz balloon trans-Atlantic attempt
	
	The balloon Speedball-1 should be attempting a crossing of the Atlantic on Friday UT (Thursday evening ET) and it'll be carrying a 7.102MHz USB Amateur Radio beacon.
	
	The launch will hopefully take place on Friday, March 25 at 0100 UT (Thursday, March 24 at 9PM Eastern Time) from Space Port Indiana, in Columbus IN. If weather conditions are not favourable further launch attempts will be made on Saturday and Sunday UT. 
	
	It is expected to take between 36 and 72 hours to complete the crossing with a landing in either Southern Europe or North Africa.
	
	The 40m beacon is capable of transmitting both RTTY and DominoEX and the free software dl-fldigi can be used to decode it. However, the Twitter feed indicates that a few days ago they were having RFI problems with the flight computer which was reseting whenever the HF transmitter was on, hopefully these have been resolved, see http://twitter.com/LVL1WhiteStar/
	
	You can sign up for a launch notification announcement on the right-hand side of the home page at 
	http://whitestarballoon.org/
	
	Follow the flight live here
	http://track.whitestarballoon.com/
	
	HF Payload Details
	http://wiki.whitestarballoon.com/doku.php?id=hardware:radio:hf:wb8elkwhitestarn17
	
	Watch Tour of SpeedBall-1, ready to fly
	http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgHVWCXM3hw
	
	Picture of HF TX dipole with newly added dummy load
	http://www.flickr.com/photos/48225359@N03/5551628243/
	
	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
	
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