{"id":1041,"date":"2015-12-13T17:03:48","date_gmt":"2015-12-13T06:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/picospace.net\/?p=1041"},"modified":"2016-01-12T07:41:56","modified_gmt":"2016-01-11T20:41:56","slug":"ps-57-hf-pico-balloon-wspr-jt9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/picospace.net\/?p=1041","title":{"rendered":"PS-57 HF PICO balloon WSPR JT9"},"content":{"rendered":"

PS-57 was released at 19:15 12 Dec 2015 UTC<\/p>\n

Solar powered party balloon, 25mW TX
\nTX WSPR, JT9 on 30m only<\/p>\n

Dial frequency 10.138700Mhz (standard WSPR dial frequency) for WSPR, JT9.
\nJT9 at 1100Hz offset.<\/p>\n

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

Tracking as PS-57 on SNUS http:\/\/picospace.net\/tracker\/new
\nWSPR call sign is VK3YT http:\/\/wsprnet.org\/olddb?findcall=vk3yt<\/p>\n

Prediction:<\/p>\n

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TX scheduling
\nMinute – Band – Mode – Condition
\n:00 – 30m – 2 mins WSPR then two x 1 min JT9 – mandatory
\n:10 – 30m – 2 mins WSPR then two x 1 min JT9 – if batt full
\n:20 – 30m – 2 mins WSPR then two x 1 min JT9 – if batt full
\n:30 – 30m – 2 mins WSPR then two x 1 min JT9 – mandatory
\n:40 – 30m – 2 mins WSPR then two x 1 min JT9 – if batt full
\n:50 – 30m – 2 mins WSPR then two x 1 min JT9 – if batt full<\/p>\n

Update #1 20 Dec 2015 AEST<\/p>\n

PS-57 move to within 5.8 degrees from the equator before turning South-East:<\/p>\n

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Prediction:<\/p>\n

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Update #2 24 Dec 2015 AEST<\/p>\n

PS-57 crossed the equator into the Northern Hemisphere this morning. Currently PS-57 is 9000m over Colombia, heading towards Venezuela:<\/p>\n

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Prediction:<\/p>\n

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Update #3 26 Dec 2015 AEST<\/p>\n

PS-57 is mid-way across the Atlantic<\/p>\n

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Weather map:<\/p>\n

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Predictions:<\/p>\n

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Update #4 30 Dec 2015 AEST<\/p>\n

PS-57 survived some rough weather in the last few days, with multiple loss of altitude<\/p>\n

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It appears to be stable in the last 24H<\/p>\n

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Update #4 12 Jan 2015 AEST<\/p>\n

After 4 weeks, 1 day and 18 hours of flying time PS-57 went down in the middle of the Indian Ocean last night, taken down by bad weather.<\/p>\n

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PS-57 was released at 19:15 12 Dec 2015 UTC Solar powered party balloon, 25mW TX TX WSPR, JT9 on 30m only Dial frequency 10.138700Mhz (standard WSPR dial frequency) for WSPR, JT9. JT9 at 1100Hz offset. See HF decoding info at http:\/\/picospace.net\/?cat=34 Tracking as PS-57 on SNUS http:\/\/picospace.net\/tracker\/new WSPR call sign is VK3YT http:\/\/wsprnet.org\/olddb?findcall=vk3yt Prediction: TX […]<\/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":[33],"class_list":["post-1041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flights","tag-hf-jt9-wspr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/picospace.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/picospace.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/picospace.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/picospace.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/picospace.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1041"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/picospace.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1130,"href":"https:\/\/picospace.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041\/revisions\/1130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/picospace.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/picospace.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/picospace.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}