XABEN + SPoT Long duration floater Sunday 12/2/12 1000ish

[James Coxon]

Hey all,
Steve and I have a notam for launching from Suffolk this weekend -
we'll be aiming to launch a long duration floater on sunday morning
quite early (to give a full day of tracking). As usual it'll be a
Hwoyee 1600 with minimal fill aiming for a low ascent rate. The
payload consists of a XABEN standard payload on 434Mhz (exact freq
will be announced tomorrow) as well as a hacked SPoT to work at
altitude and to continue working over 24hrs.

Predicted flight path is south towards france then turning east and
floating at altitude for quite a distance - how far really depends on
how long the balloon stays up.

Listeners are very very welcome as usual, standard stuff regarding
tracking (dl-fldigi, follow on spacenear.us and chat on
#highaltitude).

They'll be more info regarding exact frequencies posted on here before
the flight.

James
M6JCX

(p.s. the notam is for 2 launches so might do a normal up/down launch
if there is time).

[Steve Randall]

The XABEN transmissions should be on 434.650MHz

around 425Hz shift (might need some manual 

adjustment). 

     Steve G8KHW

(If we do a 2nd launch it will be on 434.075 MHz)

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[stea...@gmail.com]

Cool!

Thanks,
Dan

Sent from my iPhone

[Darkside]

Looks like the US launch has frozen. No data for a few hours.

- Mark VK5QI

[James Coxon]

Hey all,

Thanks for the amazing turnout for tracking the balloon. Unfortunately
a small mistake before launch meant that the old batteries were in the
flight computer which means that the radio struggled which made
decoding very very difficult. Still receiving strings however the
effort required to decode it has become too much! The SPoT went quiet
at 1905 however this might be due to cold and it might wake up in hte
morning (long shot though).

We've just scrapped past Apex Alpha's duration record with this data:
23:43:42,48.70730,11.46630,29821 which puts the flight at 12 hours and
23 minutes.

Thanks again - the flight was awesome - if SPoT does wake up then
everything changes - otherwise thats the end of this flight...

James
M6JCX

[James Coxon]

Just for peoples info (submitted strings for the flight):

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{"key":["453660bbf852a2aec69ce17f94a624dc","2E0UPU"],"value":1556},
{"key":["453660bbf852a2aec69ce17f94a624dc","2E0UPU/M"],"value":38},
{"key":["453660bbf852a2aec69ce17f94a624dc","CUDDYKID"],"value":16},
{"key":["453660bbf852a2aec69ce17f94a624dc","DAVEAKE"],"value":1414},
{"key":["453660bbf852a2aec69ce17f94a624dc","DUTCH-MILL"],"value":689},
{"key":["453660bbf852a2aec69ce17f94a624dc","F1OET"],"value":136},
{"key":["453660bbf852a2aec69ce17f94a624dc","F1REP"],"value":2},
{"key":["453660bbf852a2aec69ce17f94a624dc","F1SRC"],"value":246},
{"key":["453660bbf852a2aec69ce17f94a624dc","F5DMY"],"value":116},
{"key":["453660bbf852a2aec69ce17f94a624dc","F8BNN"],"value":65},
{"key":["453660bbf852a2aec69ce17f94a624dc","G0DJA"],"value":293},
{"key":["453660bbf852a2aec69ce17f94a624dc","G0NZO"],"value":710},
{"key":["453660bbf852a2aec69ce17f94a624dc","G3VZV-1"],"value":1016},
{"key":["453660bbf852a2aec69ce17f94a624dc","G3VZV-FCD"],"value":327},
{"key":["453660bbf852a2aec69ce17f94a624dc","G4TNX"],"value":615},
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{"key":["453660bbf852a2aec69ce17f94a624dc","HB3YWU"],"value":79},
{"key":["453660bbf852a2aec69ce17f94a624dc","HOWEST"],"value":138},
{"key":["453660bbf852a2aec69ce17f94a624dc","M0DTS"],"value":43},
{"key":["453660bbf852a2aec69ce17f94a624dc","M0EYT"],"value":143},
{"key":["453660bbf852a2aec69ce17f94a624dc","M0JCU"],"value":1790},
{"key":["453660bbf852a2aec69ce17f94a624dc","M0JCU_FCD"],"value":54},
{"key":["453660bbf852a2aec69ce17f94a624dc","M0LEP"],"value":1690},
{"key":["453660bbf852a2aec69ce17f94a624dc","M6FTY"],"value":88},
{"key":["453660bbf852a2aec69ce17f94a624dc","M6JCX"],"value":384},
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{"key":["453660bbf852a2aec69ce17f94a624dc","M6KRB"],"value":46},
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{"key":["453660bbf852a2aec69ce17f94a624dc","PD4TA"],"value":109},
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