{"id":255,"date":"2014-06-10T00:13:33","date_gmt":"2014-06-09T13:13:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/picospace.net\/?p=255"},"modified":"2014-06-11T10:55:52","modified_gmt":"2014-06-10T23:55:52","slug":"ps-9-mel-nsw-qld-pico-balloon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/picospace.net\/?p=255","title":{"rendered":"PS-9 – MEL-NSW-QLD PICO balloon"},"content":{"rendered":"

PS-9 is planned to be released Monday 9th June 2014 from Melbourne.<\/p>\n

Details:<\/p>\n

Party foil balloon. Solar powered payload 10mW, 12g weight.<\/p>\n

APRS 145.175Mhz, callsign VK3YT-11.<\/p>\n

THOR16 and RTTY100_8_1_N_600Hz: 434.500Mhz with RSID, every 6 minutes, call sign is PS on spacenear.us flight PS-9<\/p>\n

Prediction:<\/p>\n

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Update #1: Released at 8:30am, perfect day for a launch!<\/p>\n

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Update #2: 4:05pm 9\/6\/14<\/p>\n

Balloon is still going north, currently at 8385m altitude past Griffith.
\nWe don’t have any manual tracker in the footprint coverage, but APRS should be available until Bourke.<\/p>\n

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Update #3: 6:00pm 9\/6\/14<\/p>\n

Balloon has gone out of reception range. Updated predictions show it will be in range around tomorrow morning<\/p>\n

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Update #4: 7:09am 10\/6\/14<\/p>\n

It appears that battery was low overnight and the tracker shut itself down.
\nSunrise at 6:40am, the battery was charged up and first packet was received at 7:09am<\/p>\n

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Revised prediction based on latest position:<\/p>\n

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Update #5: 3:40pm 10\/6\/14<\/p>\n

PS-9 exited Australia via Rainbow Beach, heading East.<\/p>\n

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Entire path so far:<\/p>\n

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Ron VK4KLC and Doug VK4ADC recorded a WAVE file of the audio from the tracker and it was the most recent position.<\/p>\n

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PS-9 is planned to be released Monday 9th June 2014 from Melbourne. Details: Party foil balloon. Solar powered payload 10mW, 12g weight. APRS 145.175Mhz, callsign VK3YT-11. THOR16 and RTTY100_8_1_N_600Hz: 434.500Mhz with RSID, every 6 minutes, call sign is PS on spacenear.us flight PS-9 Prediction: Update #1: Released at 8:30am, perfect day for a launch! Update […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[15],"class_list":["post-255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flights","tag-pico-aprs-rtty-thor-qld-nsw"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/picospace.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/picospace.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/picospace.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/picospace.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/picospace.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=255"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"http:\/\/picospace.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":283,"href":"http:\/\/picospace.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions\/283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/picospace.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/picospace.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/picospace.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}