[amsat-bb] ZW2WEB weather ballon ICARO

[Roland Zurmely]

An weather balloon will be released from Meteorological Research Institute (IPMet) of University of São Paulo State (UNESP) at Bauru campus and will carry up to an altitude of about 25km, a radiosonde and a beacon (voice transmitter), with the special callsign ZW2WEB. The radiosonde will transmit to the ground  station all data ​​of pressure, temperature, humidity, speed, wind direction and location. A radioamateur station will uplink this information which will be relayed by the beacon. Any radioamateur station, equipped with a receiver in the VHF frequency of 144.330 MHz will be able to receive the information and build a log with the meteorological data and, therefore, be able to identify layers of the atmosphere and the transition between them: troposphere, tropopause and stratosphere. 


http://www.ipmet.unesp.br/icaro/ 


73 de Roland.