Monthly Archives: August 2015

PS-50 HF PICO balloon WSPR JT9

PS-50 was released at 7:20am 23/8/2015 AEST

Solar powered party balloon, 25mW TX
TX WSPR, JT9 on 30m and 20m

Dial frequency 10.138700Mhz and 14.095600Mhz (standard WSPR dial frequencies) for WSPR, JT9.
JT9 will be at 1000Hz offset.

See HF decoding info at http://picospace.net/?cat=34

Tracking as PS-50 on SNUS http://picospace.net/tracker/new
WSPR call sign is VK3YT http://wsprnet.org/olddb?findcall=vk3yt

Prediction:

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TX scheduling
Minute – Band – Mode – Condition
:00 – 30m – 2 mins WSPR then two x 1 min JT9 – mandatory
:10 – 20m – 2 mins WSPR then two x 1 min JT9 – if batt full
:20 – 30m – 2 mins WSPR then two x 1 min JT9 – if batt full
:30 – 20m – 2 mins WSPR then two x 1 min JT9 – mandatory
:40 – 30m – 2 mins WSPR then two x 1 min JT9 – if batt full
:50 – 20m – 2 mins WSPR then two x 1 min JT9 – if batt full

Update #1 5 Sep 2015

PS-50 went down somewhere near South America, last transmission was at 26 Aug 2015 05:02 UTC
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PS-48 HF PICO balloon WSPR JT9

PS-48 was released at 7:30am 8/8/2015 AEST

Solar powered party balloon, 25mW TX
TX WSPR, JT9 on 30m and 20m

Dial frequency 10.138700Mhz and 14.095600Mhz (standard WSPR dial frequencies) for WSPR, JT9.
JT9 will be at 1800Hz offset.

See HF decoding info at http://picospace.net/?cat=34

Tracking as PS-48 on SNUS http://picospace.net/tracker/new
WSPR call sign is VK3YT http://wsprnet.org/olddb?findcall=vk3yt

Update:

Communication from PS-48 stopped after the first night, until it appeared briefly again in South America a week later, and hasn’t been heard from since.

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