--------- Begin forwarded message ---------- From: Glists lists@lazygranch.com To: bayscan@yahoogroups.com,hidesertscan@yahoogroups.com Subject: [bayscan] High Altitude Balloon ham repeater Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2003 00:20:12 -0800 Message-ID: 5.2.0.9.0.20030404001741.0335ad68@mail.lazygranch.com

This should be good for about 440 miles based on the height.

            ASTRONOMY/SPACE ALERT FOR SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

                            Brian Webb, KD6NRP
                      Ventura County, California
                    E-mail: kd6nrp@earthlink.net
            Web Site: http://home.earthlink.net/~kd6nrp

                                            2003 April 3 (Thursday)

19:35 PST

                      High Altitude Balloon Flight

Rex Mauldin, N7NGM has informed me that a high-altitude balloon flight is tentatively scheduled for this weekend. Weather permitting, the unmanned balloon will leave its launch site in Arizona and carry a amateur (ham) radio package to the edge of space.

Rex requests that you listen for signals from the balloon. If you're a licensed ham, you're invited to attempt to establish communications using the cross-band repeater.

The radio frequencies planned for this flight are:

                            CTCSS
    Freq.                   Tone
    (MHz)                   (Hz)              Comments
    -------         -----           --------------
    145.560         162.2           Repeater input
    445.525         None            Repeater output
    445.950         None            Packet beacon

According to Rex, "...the furthest stations we have worked into CA using the cross-band repeater from 103,000 feet is, N06P near Diamond Bar CA. We are not sure if we are being heard well into the LA area or not. Any signals reports would be appreciated."

Launch updates will be passed over the 220 MHz Condor linked repeater system. For more information, go to the following web sites:

    http://www.ansr.org
    http://www.kd7lmo.net/~ansr

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