Hello SBARC Members and Friends,
Our Santa Barbara Balloon Launch is being sponsored by the Santa Barbara Natural History Museum and it may have drifted back to July 19 at 10am from West Beach in Santa Barbara. Location is subject to change based on flight predictions. There is currently no website with info, but watch www.sbarc.org since it will probably have the techie stuff on it first. Www.sbnature.org is the museum site and they’ll probably have some publicity on there in the next few days.
I’m recruiting people to help with tracking and recovery. Info will be published soon when we nail everything down. We have more payload that we want so some trimming is necessary. That could scratch one or more of our subsystems.
Are you interested in tracking, chasing and recovering? Predictions of a landing site have varied from Lancaster/Palmdale to the wilderness north of Ojai and most recently to Pt Mugu. We’re packaging for an ocean landing, which hasn’t been predicted yet, but is quite possible. Can you swim long distances or do you have a boat?
Transmitters will be on several 2m freqs, a 20m freq and possibly 2.4 GHz ATV. We’ll be on www.aprs.fi as well as other telemetry freqs and probably with SSTV on 2m. Again, parts of this are subject to change. Something will definitely have to be cut.
Let me know how you and any of your friends would like to be involved and we’ll make a big party of it!
Thanks for tuning in,
Rod Fritz, WB9KMO
805-637-0985