{"id":825,"date":"2015-04-06T11:18:03","date_gmt":"2015-04-06T00:18:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/picospace.net\/?p=825"},"modified":"2015-04-22T21:32:32","modified_gmt":"2015-04-22T10:32:32","slug":"ps-41-hf-pico-balloon-wspr-jt9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/picospace.net\/?p=825","title":{"rendered":"PS-41 HF PICO balloon WSPR JT9"},"content":{"rendered":"

PS-41 is in the air on Easter Monday.<\/p>\n

Solar powered 25mW TX, WSPR and JT9, dial frequencies 10.138700Mhz and 14.095600Mhz<\/p>\n

HF decoding info at http:\/\/picospace.net\/?cat=34<\/p>\n

Tracking as PS-41 on SNUS http:\/\/picospace.net\/tracker\/new
\nWSPR call sign is VK3YT http:\/\/wsprnet.org\/olddb?findcall=vk3yt<\/p>\n

Prediction:
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Update #1 8am 11\/4\/2015 AEST<\/p>\n

PS-41 got to South America overnight.<\/p>\n

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It’s been good going in the last 6 days, with the longest distance for JT9 packets being received so far for a PS payload from Ireland by Ei2KK while being in the South Pacific.<\/p>\n

Update #2 10am 12\/4\/2015 AEST<\/p>\n

Reception from the balloon after South America has been difficult with the flight path and availability of tracking station.<\/p>\n

Only one WSPR spot was received overnight, showing PS-41 South of South Georgia and The South Sandwitch Islands.<\/p>\n

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Prediction:
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Update #3 7pm 13\/4\/2015 AEST<\/p>\n

PS-41 has been picked up by the South Africa hams on JT9. We also got a number of WSPR spots<\/p>\n

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Update #4 8pm 14\/4\/2015 AEST<\/p>\n

PS-41 is over the Indian Ocean, on the last leg to come home!<\/p>\n

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This is a nice capture earlier today, of PS-41 and PS-42 in the twilight zones at sunrise and sunset<\/p>\n

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Prediction:<\/p>\n

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Update #5 7pm 16\/4\/2015 AEST<\/p>\n

PS-41 crossed the starting longitude of 144.903 at 11:20am AEST (1:20am UTC) this morning, completing the first Picospace around-the-world trip. <\/p>\n

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The total travelled time was approx 10 days and 3 hours.<\/p>\n

Big thank-you to everyone that have been assisting with tracking, this trip would not have been possible without you, especially the RX stations:<\/p>\n

EI2KK LU5FF VK1JA VK1KW VK2DDI VK2FAK VK2IUW VK2XN VK3ATQ VK3DXE VK3KCX VK3YSP VK4RV VK5EI VK5PP VK6XT WA5DJJ ZL1RS ZL2IK ZL3LSD ZL3TRR ZS2CX ZS6BMN ZS6BTY ZS6GC ZS6KN<\/p>\n

Update #6 8pm 22\/4\/2015 AEST<\/p>\n

PS-41 went south towards Antarctica and then headed East towards South America.<\/p>\n

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Somewhere near South America, PS-41 went down marking the end of an amazing trip!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

PS-41 is in the air on Easter Monday. Solar powered 25mW TX, WSPR and JT9, dial frequencies 10.138700Mhz and 14.095600Mhz HF decoding info at http:\/\/picospace.net\/?cat=34 Tracking as PS-41 on SNUS http:\/\/picospace.net\/tracker\/new WSPR call sign is VK3YT http:\/\/wsprnet.org\/olddb?findcall=vk3yt Prediction: Update #1 8am 11\/4\/2015 AEST PS-41 got to South America overnight. It’s been good going in the […]<\/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":[44],"class_list":["post-825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flights","tag-hf-wspr-jt9-pico"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/picospace.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825","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=825"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/picospace.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":861,"href":"http:\/\/picospace.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825\/revisions\/861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/picospace.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/picospace.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/picospace.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}