{"id":498,"date":"2014-11-22T09:31:21","date_gmt":"2014-11-21T22:31:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/picospace.net\/?p=498"},"modified":"2014-11-22T22:17:38","modified_gmt":"2014-11-22T11:17:38","slug":"ps-25-and-ps-26-hf-pico-balloons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/picospace.net\/?p=498","title":{"rendered":"PS-25 and PS-26 HF PICO balloons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PS-25 and PS-26 PICO balloons were released on Sat 22 Nov 2014, testing out multiple balloon tracking with JT9 and WSPR.<\/p>\n<p>Solar powered 10mW TX HF payloads transmitting JT9 and WSPR with frequency offset of 400Hz for JT9 and 100Hz for WSPR, they could be tracked simultaneously with the modified WSJTX software.<\/p>\n<p>Tracked on SNUS as PS-25 and PS-26.<br \/>\nCallsign on JT9 is VK3YT, and callsigns on WSPR are VK3YT and VK3ANH<\/p>\n<p>TX time and frequency schedule:<\/p>\n<p>0 30m \/\/ Mandatory JT9 and WSPR, two per hour<br \/>\n6 30m \/\/ Optional JT9 &#8211; bat full<br \/>\n10 20m \/\/ Optional JT9 and WSPR &#8211; batt low<br \/>\n16 20m \/\/ Optional JT9 &#8211; bat full<br \/>\n20 30m \/\/ Optional JT9 and WSPR &#8211; batt low<br \/>\n26 30m \/\/ Optional JT9 &#8211; bat full<br \/>\n30 20m \/\/ Mandatory JT9 and WSPR, two per hour<br \/>\n36 20m \/\/ Optional JT9 &#8211; bat full<br \/>\n40 30m \/\/ optional JT9 and WSPR &#8211; batt low<br \/>\n46 30m \/\/ Optional JT9 &#8211; bat full<br \/>\n50 20m \/\/ Optional JT9 and WSPR &#8211; batt low<\/p>\n<p>Decoding software <\/p>\n<p>Windows installer:<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/picospace.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/files\/wsjtx-1.5.0-devel-win32.exe<br \/>\nSource files:<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/picospace.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/files\/wsjtx_src_1.5_devel.zip<\/p>\n<p>Update #1 6:30pm<\/p>\n<p>Multi tracking was working well, but PS-26 landed in the Tasman sea shortly after leaving the coastline. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/picospace.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/PastedGraphic-7.png\" alt=\"PastedGraphic 7\" title=\"PastedGraphic-7.png\" border=\"0\" width=\"600\" height=\"344\" \/><\/p>\n<p>PS-25 is still heading East towards NZ. SNUS callsign is PS-25, and WSPR callsign is VK3ANH.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/picospace.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/PastedGraphic-9.png\" alt=\"PastedGraphic 9\" title=\"PastedGraphic-9.png\" border=\"0\" width=\"600\" height=\"356\" \/><\/p>\n<p>WSPR map for PS-25<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/picospace.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/PastedGraphic-10.png\" alt=\"PastedGraphic 10\" title=\"PastedGraphic-10.png\" border=\"0\" width=\"600\" height=\"427\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PS-25 and PS-26 PICO balloons were released on Sat 22 Nov 2014, testing out multiple balloon tracking with JT9 and WSPR. Solar powered 10mW TX HF payloads transmitting JT9 and WSPR with frequency offset of 400Hz for JT9 and 100Hz for WSPR, they could be tracked simultaneously with the modified WSJTX software. Tracked on SNUS [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[30],"class_list":["post-498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-hf-pico-jt9-multiple-tracking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/picospace.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498","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=498"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/picospace.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":504,"href":"http:\/\/picospace.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498\/revisions\/504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/picospace.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/picospace.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/picospace.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}