{"id":434,"date":"2014-09-21T12:37:08","date_gmt":"2014-09-21T01:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/picospace.net\/?p=434"},"modified":"2014-09-24T09:39:39","modified_gmt":"2014-09-23T22:39:39","slug":"ps-21-pico-hf-payload","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/picospace.net\/?p=434","title":{"rendered":"PS-21 PICO balloon with HF payload"},"content":{"rendered":"

PS-21 was released at 7:30am Sun 21\/9\/2014 from Melbourne.<\/p>\n

Multimode HF testing.<\/p>\n

PICO party balloon, 15mW TX<\/p>\n

30m and 40m WSPR on 10.1402Mhz and 7.0401Mhz
\nOlivia and JT65 on 10.142Mhz and 7.047Mhz<\/p>\n

Callsign VK3YT<\/p>\n

Tracked on spacenear.us<\/p>\n

Prediction:<\/p>\n

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Initial WSPR map:<\/p>\n

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Update #1 5:30pm<\/p>\n

WSPR is working well<\/p>\n

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Olivia could not cope with heavy fading very well, we have been using JT65 for tracking<\/p>\n

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Update #2 7:30pm we got some very good WSPR paths from the balloon<\/p>\n

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KK4MBI\t16795km
\nW3BI\t16932km
\nN2NOM\t16762km
\nW3CSW\t16730km<\/p>\n

Updated prediction:<\/p>\n

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Update #3 5:30am 22\/9<\/p>\n

PS-21 made it to the middle of Australia overnight<\/p>\n

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Update #4 6:40pm 22\/9<\/p>\n

PS-21 re-appeared in the afternoon near Cairns, heading out to sea<\/p>\n

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This is pretty cool, showing ZL1RS receiving Olivia from the balloon, from 2900km away<\/p>\n

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Update #5 7:30am 24\/9<\/p>\n

PS-21 descended near Fiji overnight, marking the end of the test.
\nThe balloon was tracked all the way down to 2700m before contact was lost.<\/p>\n

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Last WSPR spots
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Top WSPR distances
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PS-21 was released at 7:30am Sun 21\/9\/2014 from Melbourne. Multimode HF testing. PICO party balloon, 15mW TX 30m and 40m WSPR on 10.1402Mhz and 7.0401Mhz Olivia and JT65 on 10.142Mhz and 7.047Mhz Callsign VK3YT Tracked on spacenear.us Prediction: Initial WSPR map: Update #1 5:30pm WSPR is working well Olivia could not cope with heavy fading […]<\/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":[26],"class_list":["post-434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flights","tag-pico-hf-olivia-jt65-wspr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/picospace.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434","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=434"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"http:\/\/picospace.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":465,"href":"http:\/\/picospace.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434\/revisions\/465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/picospace.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/picospace.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/picospace.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}