In case y'all are interested.?
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Just copied it over to the OK DMR & Digital on telegram.
Good evening!
This is just a quick reminder that the Richardson Wireless Klub will be launching a high altitude balloon this Saturday! The tentative launch site is Aubrey Middle School in Aubrey TX (north of DFW by a few miles). Launch prep begins at 8:00AM and lift-off is 9:00AM. We expect the radio horizon to cover multiple states when our payloads are at the peak altitude of approximately 100,000ft.
There are several payloads of interest:
* DMR Repeater - 441.0 MHz / CC1 / TS1 / TG99 (single-frequency repeater -- configure your radio as if it were simplex)
* SSTV Transmitter - 433.5 MHz / Robot 36
* Wenet Digital Images - 431.5 MHz / 115.2kbaud -- see live images at
* WA0VYU 6m Parrot Repeater - 52.525 MHz
* K5YR 20m WSPR Beacon
* K5UTD ADS-B Skimmer
* KD5OUG/W5LH Pi Pico Sensor Payload (K5RWK-11 / APRS 144.39)
All are invited to participate with the launch and the chase, or to simply enjoy the payloads from the comfort of your own shack. If nothing else I would recommend leaving your DMR HT on Simplex 1 (per ) and wait for voices from all over the West Gulf region to start being received.
Tracking will be at (frequent updates with
good telemetry), or via APRS with W5ADC-11 and K5RWK-11.
There are a lot of mildly technical, receiver related projects that you can set up to receive the payloads in your shack. Something as simple as a Raspberry Pi and an RTL-SDR can receive live, digital images using Wenet. Your radio that can receive sideband at UHF (or RTL-SDR) can be used to decode telemetry with Horus GUI. There are several articles that outline how you can participate at: (thanks KD4C!).
We hope to see you at the launch or hear you on the air!
(Please forward this to any other interested clubs/groups/parties)
73 de KE5GDB
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Chuck -- KP4DJT
AREDN Meshphone # 405.2005 and 405.2013
HamHotline # 11259
DMR ID 3140958
