Fwd: Blue Horizon Readies for 2010 Flights, and Needs YOUR Help to Ensure Success!
James Coxon
From: ProjectBlueHorizon <con...@projectbluehorizon.com>
Date: 21 March 2010 04:41
Subject: Blue Horizon Readies for 2010 Flights, and Needs YOUR Help to
Ensure Success!
To:
Fellow Hams –
Project Blue Horizon is back on the air and in the skies! Our wildly
successful and record breaking flights from prior years inspired us to
aim for even loftier goals this year. Each of our two missions this
year will include two flights, for a total of four balloons launched.
Our first mission’s goal will be to reclaim our Highest GPS Reported
Maximum Altitude and extend our Longest Flight Time records; our
second mission will extend our Longest Flight Time record and allow us
to perform scientific experiments measuring the atmospheric effects of
near-space flight.
We plan to launch our first mission this year sometime in early April,
and we again need your expert help in tracking our balloons. As with
last year, our primary method of collecting telemetry data will be on
the 40 meter HF band, specifically on 7.0125 MHz. Additionally, we
will use the APRS network on 144.390 MHz to track the balloons while
utilizing line-of-sight to land stations connected to the APRS
network.
Based on the fantastic support and response from the world wide ham
community, we established a new website to centralize the tracking of
data, as well as maintained our existing Twitter feed and email list.
Please sign up on our website and follow us on Twitter so we can keep
you informed of latest developments. If you have 40m HF equipment and
are willing to track our flights, please reply with your location,
call sign, email, and phone number so we can coordinate tracking of
our telemetry data. Please also reply with all the requested contact
information if you live in Europe, Africa, or Asia, administer APRS
repeaters, and are willing to reconfigure the input frequency to
listen for 144.390 MHz instead of your home frequency.
Much more detailed information will be distributed as we get closer to
launch (including, of course, the launch window and countdown clock).
Until then, please check out our website and reply to this address
with any questions.
73,
KC2TUA
Tom Triebwasser
PBH Alum ‘09