[amsat-bb] Sunday 11 september 2016 balloon fox hunt with U/V FM transponder!

[Cor PDØRKC]

Hello radio friends,

At Sunday 11 september 2016 is a balloon fox hunt event.
A weather balloon will be launched with U/V FM transponder, 23cm ATV transmitter and
beacon (tone) transmitter.
The weather balloon will be launched from the Netherlands, amateur radio stations in nearby -
countries have to wait a while to hear the signals untill the balloon reach an higher -
altitude! (the maximal altitude might reach 30km it also did in the past!).
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Balloon transmitters frequency information:
Beacon:  145.450 MHz (100 mW FM/N).
FM crossband voice transponder uplink: 432.550MHz downlink: 145.475MHz (1 Watt FM/N).
ATV video transmitter 1252 MHz     (1 Watt FM, camera looking down to earth).
The balloon camera video stream can be world wide seen on the website (see the urls below).
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Ground control stations:
PI4RCG      7.080 kHz, 3.650 kHz (+/- 10kHz QRM).
PI2NOS     430.125 MHz (+1.6 Shift) ground repeater in the Netherlands (also audible via echolink).
PI3UTR     145.575 MHz (-0.6 Shift / 77Hz) ground repeater in the Netherlands (also audible via echolink).

The official balloon fox hunt website and social media websites:
https://www.ballonvossenjacht.nl (you can choose the English language from the menu).
http://www.facebook.com/ballonvossenjacht
https://twitter.com/ballonvosjacht (often with quick update news messages!).

73's Cor PD0RKC