[Fourlanders] Local Ham to launch big balloon

[Tom McElroy]

Tuesday morning, June 17th, Jack KM4ZIA will be launching a large HAB
(High-Altitude Balloon) and two picoballoon launches from Youth On The Air
(YOTA) Camp in Thornton, Colorado.
Video here:
https://photos.app.goo.gl/R1dka9TgZeznahTBA

The large HAB will be launched at 8:30 MDT (Denver), and it will carry a
voice beacon that transmits a voice message every minute at 146.550 MHz FM.
The voice beacon directs you to go to aprs.fi
<https://aprs.fi/#!lat=39.79450&lng=-105.09530> to track the balloon's
other payload W4SDR-12, which is a 144.390 MHz APRS SkyTracker from Bill
Brown, WB8ELK.  Hams within a few hundred miles of Denver should hear it.

We expect the HAB to ascend to 100,000 feet or so before it pops, and then
it will take a parachute ride back to earth. The payload recovery team is
the Edge of Space Sciences (EOSS) group.

The picoballoons will be launched sometime near 1PM MDT. Both are 1 meter
balloons that will rise to a float altitude of about 40,000 feet.

The picoballoon callsigns are:

W0Y-1, which is operating on 15 meters.
W0Y-11, which is operating on 10 meters.

Both can be tracked in real time at
https://www.wsprnet.org/drupal/wsprnet/map or at
https://aprs.fi/#!lat=39.79450&lng=-105.09530.
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