{"id":242786,"date":"2016-09-14T08:04:28","date_gmt":"2016-09-14T12:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amsat-uk.org\/?p=30691"},"modified":"2016-09-14T08:04:28","modified_gmt":"2016-09-14T12:04:28","slug":"ledbury-434-mhz-school-balloon-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=242786","title":{"rendered":"Ledbury 434 MHz School Balloon Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-shortcode=\"caption\" id=\"attachment_9028\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ukamsat.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/07\/2012-07-14-14-15-29-pie1-1b.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9028\" src=\"https:\/\/ukamsat.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/07\/2012-07-14-14-15-29-pie1-1b.jpeg?w=300&#038;h=167\" alt=\"SSDV picture from a PIE balloon - Image credit Dave Akerman M6RPI\/2E0LTX\/M0RPI\" width=\"300\" height=\"167\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">SSDV picture from a PIE balloon &#8211; Image credit Dave Akerman M6RPI\/2E0LTX\/M0RPI<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Ryan Ing<\/strong> reports he will launch a high altitude balloon with a 434 MHz Slow Scan Digital Video (SSDV) payload from the John Masefield High School Thursday, September 15.<\/p>\n<p>The balloon&#8217;s transmitter should have a range of some 500-600 km for much of its flight permitting reception across the UK.<\/p>\n<p>Ryan says: I&#8217;ll be doing my first launch around 10am Sept 15 from my sixth form in Ledbury, Herefordshire.\u00a0 Predicted to burst at 32km, landing somewhere near Leominster.<\/p>\n<p>RTTY, 434.250 MHz, 300 baud, 770 Hz Shift, 2 stop bits and 8 bit ASCII. With SSDV<\/p>\n<p>Online real-time tracking of balloons <a href=\"http:\/\/tracker.habhub.org\/\" >http:\/\/tracker.habhub.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Useful High Altitude Balloon, UKHAS and SSDV links <a href=\"https:\/\/amsat-uk.org\/beginners\/balloons\/\" >https:\/\/amsat-uk.org\/beginners\/balloons\/<\/a><\/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=30691&#038;%23038;subd=ukamsat&#038;%23038;ref=&#038;%23038;feed=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ryan Ing reports he will launch a high altitude balloon with a 434 MHz Slow Scan Digital Video (SSDV) payload from the John Masefield High School Thursday, September 15. The balloon&rsquo;s transmitter should have a range of some 500-600 km &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amsat-uk.org\/2016\/09\/14\/ledbury-434-mhz-school-balloon\/\">Continue reading <span>&rarr;<\/span><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/pixel.wp.com\/b.gif?host=amsat-uk.org&amp;blog=41081109&amp;post=30691&amp;subd=ukamsat&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-AMSAT"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=242786"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":243287,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242786\/revisions\/243287"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=242786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=242786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=242786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}