[amsat-bb] Re: Transatlantic balloon attempt

[George Henry]

Thank you, Trevor.  There are no technical details of the mission that I could 
find on the Project Blue Horizon website, so I wondered.


George, KA3HSW




----- Original Message ----
> From: Trevor . <m5aka at yahoo.co.uk>
> To: amsat-bb at amsat.org; George Henry <ka3hsw at att.net>
> Sent: Wed, March 28, 2012 5:01:46 AM
> Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Re: Transatlantic balloon attempt
> 
> --- On Wed, 28/3/12, George Henry <ka3hsw at att.net> wrote:
> > So do they  have a control link, or are
> > they operating with no control?
> 
> On  another list it was mentioned that they use the 10 MHz band for control  
>purposes. 
>
> 
> They apparently are using a Small Wonder Labs QRP transceiver  and the onboard 
>microcomputer decodes CW commands.
> 
> 73 Trevor  M5AKA
> 
>