Amateur APRS Radio balloon starts record breaking flight

[PA2OLD]

An APRS amateur radio balloon KT5TK-11 has started out on its journey to break the long distance record.
It was launched from Katy in Texas at about 2123 UT Saturday night on the start of its journey to Nanjing in China. Previous balloon flights have ended in the Mediterranean, this one aims to go much further.
You can follow the balloon’s progress on the Internet by logging onto the APRS tracking site, filling in the “Track callsign:” field with 'KT5TK-11', and changing the 'Show last:' field to 24 hours.
Its frequency agile transmitter is capable of operating on 144.390 MHz, 144.800 or 145.825 MHz FM depending on geographical location.

APRS tracking site http://aprs.fi/

Further details at
http://www.southgatearc.org/news/feb..._for_china.htm

Bron: http://www.qrz.com/

[PC1L]

Benieuwd wanneer hij weer te zien is ..

http://aprs.fi/?call=kt5tk-11&mt=hybrid ... _s=ss_call

Voorlopig was dit het laatste ..

KT5TK-11 2012-02-12 00:00:50z
alt 13949 m
T=-49C/Ub=5533mV HAB http://w5acm.net/b28.html
[APRS via WIDE1-1,WIDE2-1,qAR,N5ROG-1]

Meer informatie hier http://w5acm.net/b28.html

The BLT-28 Payload
Frequency-Agile APRS Transmitter with Telemetry

USA = 144.390 MHz FM
mid-Atlantic = 145.825 MHz
Europe = 144.800 MHz FM