[Vk5-wx-sonde] Not-So-High-Altitude Balloon Launch #2 - Saturday 12th September

[Mark Jessop]

That'd be great Steve!
I'm going to have great difficulty getting to the landing area in time.
I'll e-mail you separately with more info when it gets closer to the date.

73
Mark

On Thu, Sep 10, 2020 at 5:32 PM Steve via Vk5-wx-sonde <
vk5-wx-sonde at vk5fo.com> wrote:

> Depending how things pan out , I will probably go out there somewhere as
> well.
> The Punthari area looks like a good landing site.
>
> Steve..//
>
>
> On Wed, 09 Sep 2020 19:51:45 +0930, Mark Jessop via Vk5-wx-sonde <
> vk5-wx-sonde at vk5fo.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Launch #2 for UofA is currently planned to take place this Saturday
> Afternoon (12th September), with launch sometime between 1 and 2pm. This
> will be the second launch of the Holographic Microscope payload which was
> operated successfully on the first launch.
>
> This launch is planned to be from the Buckland Park research site, near
> the BOM weather radar. Unfortunately due to the nature of the site we can't
> accommodate spectators. We expect the balloon to burst around 10km
> altitude, however I will likely be terminating the flight (cutting the
> balloon away) prior to this.
>
> The flight path for this launch is somewhat difficult, with the landing
> predicted to be to the East of Mannum (south of VK5CP's shack!). Liam
> VK5LJG has kindly volunteered to visit the mannum bakery^W^W^W^W head out
> to the landing site ahead of time to track the payload to the ground, while
> the launch team race across the hills from the launch site.
>
> As always (and more so in this case), the launch is highly dependent on
> weather conditions, and the launch may be called off with short notice.
>
> The current telemetry transmissions are expected:
> - Horus Binary (4FSK) - 434.660 MHz USB
> - Wenet Imagery - 443.5 MHz
>
> If you haven't tracked telemetry from a balloon flight before, this is a
> good one to get started with! (though note that the flight may be quite
> short)
> Information on decoding the Horus Binary telemetry is available here:
> https://github.com/projecthorus/horusdemodlib/wiki#how-do-i-receive-it
> Note that there has been a move to a new standalone user interface for
> decoding, which should be somewhat simpler to setup for new users.
> If you have a decoding setup working using FreeDV, it should still remain
> compatible for some time, but note that newer versions of FreeDV will not
> decode the Horus telemetry.
>
> Decoding the Wenet imagery is a bit more involved, with a guide here:
> https://github.com/projecthorus/wenet/wiki/Wenet-RX-Instructions-(Ubuntu-Debian)
>
> If you have any issues getting the software going, please let me know via
> e-mail ( vk5qi at rfhead.net ).
>
> 73
> Mark VK5QI
>
>
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