[Vk5-wx-sonde] Possible Launch Thursday 29th October 2020
Steve
vk5st at iinet.net.au
Sun Oct 25 05:06:06 PDT 2020
Hi Mark , I will leave a tracker running for horus,
ps there seems to be a coding error for
https://rfhead.net/sondes/adelaide/
it is returning results for Williamtown.
Steve
On Sun, 25 Oct 2020 14:15:50 +1030, Mark Jessop via Vk5-wx-sonde
<vk5-wx-sonde at vk5fo.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> On Thursday the 29th of October, at around 10AM, there is the
> possibility of a High-Altitude balloon launch occurring from near >Paris
> Creek by the Prescott College Southern High School, as part of their
> Science Program. This school has been performing >launches for a few
> years, but this will be their first launch using a radio tracker.
>
> They will be flying a 'Horus Binary' 4FSK tracker, transmitting on the
> usual frequency of 434.660 MHz. Their callsign will be >'PRESCOTTSOUTH'
> (which is decoded automatically by the horus-gui software).
>
> If you're set up to decode regular Horus Launches, then this should be
> as easy to decode. A guide on how to get set up to decode >is here:
> https://github.com/projecthorus/horusdemodlib/wiki/1.1-Horus-GUI-Reception-Guide-(Windows-Linux-OSX)
>
> Current flight path predictions are looking a bit sketchy (landing , so
> this launch *may* be delayed, but I'll keep everyone updated >with
> what's happening as we get close to the launch date.
>
> 73
> Mark VK5QI
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