{"id":242734,"date":"2016-09-08T15:22:50","date_gmt":"2016-09-08T19:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amsat-uk.org\/?p=30664"},"modified":"2016-09-08T15:22:50","modified_gmt":"2016-09-08T19:22:50","slug":"balloon-fm-transponder-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=242734","title":{"rendered":"Balloon FM Transponder Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ukamsat.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/09\/a-dutch-balloon-launch.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-30665\" src=\"https:\/\/ukamsat.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/09\/a-dutch-balloon-launch.jpg?w=300&#038;h=237\" alt=\"a-dutch-balloon-launch\" width=\"300\" height=\"237\" \/><\/a>At around 1100 GMT on Sunday, Sept 11, a Dutch High Altitude Balloon will launch with a UHF\/VHF FM transponder, 23cm ATV transmitter and beacon, the range should be over 500 km.<\/p>\n<p>The weather balloon will be launched from the Netherlands, amateur radio stations in nearby countries have to wait a while to hear the signals until the balloon reach a higher altitude! (the maximal altitude might reach 30km it also did in the past!).<\/p>\n<p>Balloon transmitters frequency information:<br \/>\nBeacon:\u00a0 145.450 MHz (100 mW FM\/N).<br \/>\nFM crossband voice transponder uplink: 432.550 MHz downlink: 145.475 MHz (1 Watt FM\/N).<br \/>\nATV video transmitter 1252 MHz (1 Watt FM, camera looking down to earth).<br \/>\nThe balloon camera video stream can be world wide seen on the website (see the urls below).<\/p>\n<p>Ground control stations:<br \/>\nPI4RCG\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 7.080 kHz, 3.650 kHz (+\/- 10kHz QRM).<br \/>\nPI2NOS\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 430.125 MHz (+1.6 Shift) ground repeater in the Netherlands (also audible via echolink).<br \/>\nPI3UTR\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 145.575 MHz (-0.6 Shift \/ 77Hz) ground repeater in the Netherlands (also audible via echolink).<\/p>\n<p>The official balloon fox hunt website and social media websites:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ballonvossenjacht.nl\/\" >https:\/\/www.ballonvossenjacht.nl<\/a> (you can choose the English language from the menu).<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ballonvossenjacht\" >http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ballonvossenjacht<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ballonvosjacht\" >https:\/\/twitter.com\/ballonvosjacht<\/a> (often with quick update news messages!).<\/p>\n<p>73&#8217;s Cor PD0RKC<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/pixel.wp.com\/b.gif?host=amsat-uk.org&#038;blog=41081109&#038;%23038;post=30664&#038;%23038;subd=ukamsat&#038;%23038;ref=&#038;%23038;feed=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At around 1100 GMT on Sunday, Sept 11, a Dutch High Altitude Balloon will launch with a UHF\/VHF FM transponder, 23cm ATV transmitter and beacon, the range should be over 500 km. 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