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Ham Radio balloon launch todayIf you have never worked a balloon carrying ham radio you will soon have a chance. Saturday, January 27 at 1600 UTC is when ANSR, or Arizona Near Space Research is launching a high altitude balloon carrying Amateur Radio equipment. The 2200 gram weather balloon will be sent aloft from a school in Maricopa County, in Arizona. It's expected to rise to 90,000 feet with a flight time from launch to burst of about 2 1/2 hours. College students built the varied payload which will include a cross band repeater, an ARPS Beacon and a simple FM-voice repeater. The latter has a downlink frequency of 445.525 MHz and an uplink of 145.560 MHz with a PL tone of 162.2 required for access. This repeater will be linked to the world through IRLP Node 9255. More is on line at www.findu.com/cgi-bin/find.cgi?kd7lim-11 and http://map.aprsworld.net/kd7lmo-11
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Source: Amateur Radio Newsline
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