Re: Slovakia - STS-3 PICO TEST Flight Announcement Saturday May 18

[Radim Mutina]

Hi guys,

STS-3 payload (http://stsproject.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/IMAG0327.jpg) was succesfuly recovered at the second attempt yesterday of high oak by XXL  "sondekiller" reinforced by randomly found wooden parts - the total length of the monster was about 14 meters ! :-)

https://www.dropbox.com/s/d0j1yhkzadiupku/IMG_7165.JPG - me and the monster

https://www.dropbox.com/s/7db3jabutva8fj1/IMG_7160.JPG - Peter and the PICO

http://i.imgur.com/KZqntJ1.jpg - hangman

 

A few hours later ...

https://www.dropbox.com/s/50xvaox0n10vxa4/IMAG0348.jpg

Many thanks to all receivers - especially Tomek's SP9UOB ham friends from Poland, Erwin from Austria... and to all friends from UKHAS.

Thanks to Geoff for GE visualisation also !

73!

Radim_OM2AMR

On 16.5.2013, at 10:34, Radim Mutina <radim....@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi all,

Tomek was quicker than me :-)

I would like to announce our first PICO Qualatex test flight - it looks like this weekend will be "PICO weekend" in the Central Europe.

We will try to launch our new PICO:

Date/Time: 18 May 2013, approx. 9:00 UTC

Flight: STS-3 PICO TEST:STS-3

Freq: 438.020 MHz USB - pretty far away from Tomek's UOB-PICO

UKHAS RTTY, 300Bd, 7N2, 450 Hz shift, ca. 8 mW RF Power

As we will transmit in HAM portion of band, tracker will send this CW text after each 20 packets: DE OM13STS OM13STS.

I'm not sure if we will achieve float, we'll see. 

Predictions are varying - early predictions were directly to Tomek's QTH :-) Now it's completely different http://ready.arl.noaa.gov/hysplitout/19341_trj001.gif .

73! Radim OM2AMR (OM13STS)