Thursday, April 21, 2011

Transatlantic Amateur Radio balloon launch - DELAYED!

---Delayed until 27th-29th April--- due to poor flight path predictions.

The Project Blue Horizon 5 high-altitude transatlantic amateur radio balloon was scheduled for launch, weather permitting, at 0400 UTC (midnight EDST) Friday, April 22, from Oswego, New York.

Reports of it's telemetry beacon at 7.1023MHz and 10.1466MHz can be sent to PBH15.data@gmail.com. An APRS beacon is also onboard at 144.39MHz using the callsign KC2ZJH.

More information about the program, including the latest projected flight path, is at the Project Blue Horizon website.

Also launch and flight updates will be available on Twitter

Further info on the Southgate ARC website

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