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</h1><h1 style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:16pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">20m WSPR balloon travels around the world</h1><p style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">A 25 gram Pico Balloon, call sign<span> </span><strong style="box-sizing:border-box">LU1ESY</strong>, transmitting 25 mw WSPR on 14097.6 kHz USB is expected to complete its first circumnavigation of the Earth on January 28<span> </span><br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box">This Pico Balloon was launched on January 19, 2018 to celebrate the 28th anniversary of the Argentine amateur radio satellite LUSAT-OSCAR-19.<span> </span><br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box">Pictures and further information at<span> </span><br style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="http://amsat.org.ar/globo09.htm" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,51,102);text-decoration:none">http://amsat.org.ar/globo09.htm</a><br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box">You can see the balloon&#39;s real time track at:<br style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="https://tracker.habhub.org/#!mt=roadmap&amp;mz=3&amp;qm=All&amp;mc=-48.39023,-140.21&amp;q=lu1esy-3" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,51,102);text-decoration:none">https://tracker.habhub.org/#!mt=roadmap&amp;mz=3&amp;qm=All&amp;mc=-48.39023,-140.21&amp;q=lu1esy-3</a><br style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="https://aprs.fi/#!mt=roadmap&amp;z=11&amp;call=a%2FLU1ESY-3&amp;timerange=604800&amp;tail=604800" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,51,102);text-decoration:none">https://aprs.fi/#!mt=roadmap&amp;z=11&amp;call=a%2FLU1ESY-3&amp;timerange=604800&amp;tail=604800</a><br style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="http://lu7aa.org.ar/wspr.asp" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,51,102);text-decoration:none">http://lu7aa.org.ar/wspr.asp</a><br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box">73, LU7AA, Amsat Argentina<br style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="http://www.amsat.org.ar/" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,51,102);text-decoration:none">http://www.amsat.org.ar/</a><span> </span></p>

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