ARLA/CLUSTER: Australianos continuam a lançar pequenos Radio-Balões

[João Costa > CT1FBF]

New PS-31 pico balloon from VK

Another small solar-powered balloon was launched from Melbourne
Australia early on Saturday January 24, carrying an Amateur Radio
payload, and is flying as predicted.

Andy Nguyen VK3YT launched the balloon that is fitted with a 20mW
transmitter on WSPR and JT9 using 30m and 20m, for location, altitude,
speed and other data.

He explained that with dial frequency 10.138700 MHz and 14.095600 MHz
(standard WSPR dial frequencies), these will put WSPR at 1400 Hz-1600
Hz, and JT9 at 1000 Hz, allowing decoding of both WSPR and JT9 without
changing frequency on each band.

Andy Nguyen VK3YT had launched the PS-30 balloon on December 27,
travelling eastward via New Zealand, South America, on January 16, it
went down after 20 days during a storm at Madagascar just east of
Africa.

The new balloon PS-31 has so far followed the predicted path over the
east coast of Tasmania and reported by New Zealand, where it is to
loop back over, before resuming an easterly flight toward the
International Dateline in the Pacific Ocean.

In future, if all goes well, it could head for South America like its
predecessor.

The world is listening and more trackers are invited. How far it will
go is a mystery.

See the decoding information at http://picospace.net/?cat=34

Tracking as PS-31 on SNUS http://picospace.net/tracker/new

WSPR call sign is VK3YT http://wsprnet.org/olddb?findcall=vk3yt

Jim Linton VK3PC