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<H1>Linear Transponder balloon flight</H1>
<P><FONT face=Tahoma><STRONG>William PE1RAH</STRONG> brings news of a Linear
Transponder high altitude balloon flight this Saturday, June 26, during the
Friedrichshafen <STRONG>Ham Radio</STRONG> event.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Tahoma>A flight last Saturday, June 19, was the first to carry the
linear transponder which had an uplink of 435.035-435.065 MHz LSB and a downlink
of 145.965-145.935 MHz USB.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Tahoma>On the AMSAT bulletin board William writes:</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Tahoma>Last weekend I was in Austria for holidays, and on the
Saturday there was a high altitude balloon experiment done by Austrian hams
which included a known transponder to me ;-)</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Tahoma>My location was near Landeck, some 350km west of the
balloon experiment and down in the valley, which made it impossible for me to
work the transponder (from my mobile ham station).</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Tahoma>From the website I understand that the balloon experiment
was successful, but I read some remarks that the transponder unfortunately was
not used very much. Most probably because the event was not widely known among
the hams.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Tahoma>What I understand, is that there will be another balloon
mission on Saturday (26-June) during the well known Ham Radio event in
Friedrichshafen.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Tahoma>I will not be at the Ham Radio, but I like to pass on the
news to other hams who will be there and have a chance to listen/work the
transponder or the balloon APRS.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Tahoma>The balloon information can be found at the website of
OEVSV: [Along with pictures taken at a height of 30km]<BR>In Google English -
</FONT><A href="http://tinyurl.com/3577dls" target=_blank><FONT
face=Tahoma>http://tinyurl.com/3577dls</FONT></A></P>
<P><FONT face=Tahoma> </FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Tahoma>73 de </FONT><EM><STRONG><FONT face=Tahoma>William
Leijenaar, PE1RAH<BR></FONT></STRONG></EM><A
href="http://www.leijenaarelectronics.nl/" target=_blank><FONT
face=Tahoma>http://www.leijenaarelectronics.nl/</FONT></A></P>
<P><FONT face=Tahoma></FONT> </P>
<P><FONT face=Tahoma>Austrian Radio Amateur Association OeVSV in Google
English<BR></FONT><A href="http://tinyurl.com/AustriaOEVSV" target=_blank><FONT
face=Tahoma>http://tinyurl.com/AustriaOEVSV</FONT></A></P>
<P><FONT face=Tahoma>New videos of a Cubesat linear transponder<BR></FONT><A
href="http://www.southgatearc.org/news/august2009/cubesat_linear_transponder_videos.htm"
target=_blank><FONT
face=Tahoma>http://www.southgatearc.org/news/august2009/cubesat_linear_transponder_videos.htm</FONT></A>
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