{"id":215,"date":"2014-05-11T12:40:27","date_gmt":"2014-05-11T01:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/picospace.net\/?p=215"},"modified":"2014-06-01T02:58:37","modified_gmt":"2014-05-31T15:58:37","slug":"ps-7-aprs-thor16-rsid-solar-mel-syd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/picospace.net\/?p=215","title":{"rendered":"PS-7 &#8211; APRS THOR16 RSID SOLAR MEL-SYD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PS-7 is planned to be release early Sunday morning 11 May (Mother&#8217;s day!).<\/p>\n<p>Details:<\/p>\n<p>Party foil balloon.<br \/>\nSolar powered payload 10mW, 12g weight.<br \/>\nAPRS 145.175Mhz, callsign VK3YT-10<\/p>\n<p>THOR16: 434.650Mhz with RSID, every 6 minutes, call sign is PS on spacenear.us. Flight PS-7<\/p>\n<p>Balloon is expected to travel north to NSW.<\/p>\n<p>Aim: Testing of long range solar powered PICO payload, and manual tracking with FEC (Forward Error Correction) and RSID identification.<\/p>\n<p>Update #1 8:30am AEST 11 May 2014<\/p>\n<p>Balloon in the air<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/picospace.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/PS-7\/PastedGraphic-21.png\" alt=\"PastedGraphic 2\" title=\"PastedGraphic-2.png\" border=\"0\" width=\"455\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Update #2 6:40pm AEST 12 May 2014<\/p>\n<p>The balloon made it to Newcastle, before heading East into the Tasman sea.<br \/>\nThe two balloons in the picture are for the same balloon, one for APRS tracker and one for THOR16 tracker.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/picospace.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/PS-7\/PastedGraphic-5.png\" alt=\"PastedGraphic 5\" title=\"PastedGraphic-5.png\" border=\"0\" width=\"600\" height=\"507\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Total distance travelled 1111km<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/picospace.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/PS-7\/PastedGraphic-6.png\" alt=\"PastedGraphic 6\" title=\"PastedGraphic-6.png\" border=\"0\" width=\"600\" height=\"417\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Update #3 7:00am AEST 14 May 2014<\/p>\n<p>The balloon got to New Zealand this morning, and appeared to have landed<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/picospace.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/PastedGraphic-8.png\" alt=\"PastedGraphic 8\" title=\"PastedGraphic-8.png\" border=\"0\" width=\"600\" height=\"483\" \/><\/p>\n<p>First and last packet from NZ<\/p>\n<p>2014-05-14 01:37:52 EST: VK3YT-10>SV48Q6,WIDE2-1,qAR,ZL1GK:`f+7r<0x1d>FO\/#1R}26,9,3,6,-45,3325,0202<\/p>\n<p>2014-05-14 04:14:12 EST: VK3YT-10>SX03R4,WIDE2-1,qAR,ZL1GK:`g4vm&#038;[O\/&#8221;?G}52,6,3,6,3,4090,0201<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/picospace.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/PastedGraphic-9.png\" alt=\"PastedGraphic 9\" title=\"PastedGraphic-9.png\" border=\"0\" width=\"600\" height=\"310\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Total distance so far is 3083km.<\/p>\n<p>Update #4 8:00am AEST 15 May 2014<\/p>\n<p>Looks like the balloon decided it didn\u2019t want to stay in NZ for too long.<br \/>\nIt re-launched itself this morning, before NZ hams (and customs) could get to it<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/picospace.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/PastedGraphic-13.png\" alt=\"PastedGraphic 13\" title=\"PastedGraphic-13.png\" border=\"0\" width=\"600\" height=\"592\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A big thanks for ZL hams who all geared up to search for the balloon, even with planes!<\/p>\n<p>That was 24H of rest!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/picospace.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/PastedGraphic-12.png\" alt=\"PastedGraphic 12\" title=\"PastedGraphic-12.png\" border=\"0\" width=\"600\" height=\"335\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PS-7 is planned to be release early Sunday morning 11 May (Mother&#8217;s day!). Details: Party foil balloon. Solar powered payload 10mW, 12g weight. APRS 145.175Mhz, callsign VK3YT-10 THOR16: 434.650Mhz with RSID, every 6 minutes, call sign is PS on spacenear.us. Flight PS-7 Balloon is expected to travel north to NSW. 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