Amateur radio balloon launch Saturday

On Saturday February 20 there will be another attempt to launch a balloon from Cambridgeshire that will cross the English Channel to France carrying a 434.073 RTTY beacon.

From James M6JCX:

Time to try again, planning to launch BallastHalo 4 this weekend - launch will be from Churchill rather then EARS this time which will give us better cover for filling the balloon.

So the info again:

Launch Date: 20/2/10
Launch Time: 15:00UTC
Launch Site: Churchill College, Cambridge, UK

Main Tx: RTTY on 434.073MHz, 50baud, 350 shift, ASCII-8, 1.5 stop, no parity
Secondary Tx: CW on 434.070MHz

Flight profile: aim to achieve float above 22km altitude, float for some time and drop ballast to test the ballast tanks.

Flight path: http://bit.ly/abRWMQ (different paths at different heights)

Flight Tracking: http://spacenear.us/tracker/

Chat: #highaltitude on irc.freenode.net

Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/jamescoxon/

To provide data please use dl-fldigi which will decode and upload the data straight to the server - select the payload "Atlas" For more info: http://www.pegasushabproject.org.uk/wiki/doku.php/
missions:ballasthalo:ballasthalo4

Thanks for helping!

James M6JCX

dl-fldigi
http://code.google.com/p/dl-fldigi/

Feb. 13 Cross Channel Balloon Flight
http://www.southgatearc.org/news/february2010/
cross_channel_balloon_flight.htm

Feb 13 Cross-channel balloon flight update
http://www.southgatearc.org/news/february2010/
balloon_flight_update.htm

There is a video of a presentation that Cambridge University Spaceflight gave to the AMSAT-UK Colloquium last year called "Teddy Bears in Space" you can watch it online at
http://www.batc.tv/channel.php?ch=1
From the Archive List select 2009 Amsat Teddy Bear

Or download a copy of the video at
http://www.batc.tv/vod/Teddys.flv