{"id":1172,"date":"2016-08-26T13:22:08","date_gmt":"2016-08-26T02:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/picospace.net\/?p=1172"},"modified":"2016-08-30T21:49:59","modified_gmt":"2016-08-30T10:49:59","slug":"ps-68-aprsolivia-pico-balloon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/picospace.net\/?p=1172","title":{"rendered":"PS-68 APRS\/Olivia PICO balloon"},"content":{"rendered":"

PS-68 is planned for release at 7am Sat 27 Aug 2016 AEST.<\/p>\n

Solar powered party balloon, 10mW TX.
\nAPRS on 145.175Mhz
\nOlivia 8\/250 with RSID on 434.649Mhz USB (Dial frequency)<\/p>\n

Tracking as
\nPS-68 on SNUS<\/a>
\nVK3YT-11 on APRS.FI<\/a><\/p>\n

Prediction<\/p>\n

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Update #1 5pm 28 Aug 2016 AEST<\/p>\n

PS-68 had a 24H run along the East coast, and took off to the east towards New Zealand near Brisbane this morning.<\/p>\n

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The expected time of arrive in New Zealand is around mid night local time tonight, 28 Aug 2016 (1200 UTC)<\/p>\n

Update #2 10pm 29 Aug 2016 AEST<\/p>\n

PS-68 was in range of ZL1RS at 20:36 AEST last night, at the same time arriving at a weather front. The weather caused the balloon to descend and change direction, and stayed out of LOS range of ZL stations until 7:21am this morning (AEST), when it started its tour of New Zealand.<\/p>\n

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After arriving at the East coast side, and just before it was time to leave , the balloon descended again, changing direction towards land.<\/p>\n

Update #3 9pm 30 Aug 2016 AEST<\/p>\n

PS-68 spent another day over North Island before heading into the Pacific at 15:34pm AEST today.<\/p>\n

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PS-68 is planned for release at 7am Sat 27 Aug 2016 AEST. Solar powered party balloon, 10mW TX. APRS on 145.175Mhz Olivia 8\/250 with RSID on 434.649Mhz USB (Dial frequency) Tracking as PS-68 on SNUS VK3YT-11 on APRS.FI Prediction Update #1 5pm 28 Aug 2016 AEST PS-68 had a 24H run along the East coast, […]<\/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":[38],"class_list":["post-1172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flights","tag-aprs-olivia-pico"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/picospace.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172","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=1172"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/picospace.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1184,"href":"https:\/\/picospace.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172\/revisions\/1184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/picospace.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/picospace.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/picospace.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}