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Neutrinos on Ice: Detection Balloon Heads to Antarctica
Editor's Note: Welcome to ANITA, the Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna! From October to December, Katie Mulrey is traveling with the ANITA collaboration to Antarctica to build and launch ANITA III, a scientific balloon that uses the entire …
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Q. and A. With Stuart Elliott
It must be very commonplace in Central Virginia because I see it every few weeks, and my TV viewing is only 10 to 15 hours a week, and only after 11 p.m., off the air via antenna because we tossed Dish and Comcast. It happens not only on the commercial …
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The Flash, all new tonight at 8
KELLY FRYE GUEST STARS AS DC COMICS' PLASTIQUE AND CLANCY BROWN GUEST STARS AS GENERAL EILING — After a bomb goes off downtown, the army, led by General Eiling (guest star Clancy Brown), rolls in and takes over the case, much to …
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VK Pico balloon flights test weak signals
The tracking of the 25-Milliwatt balloon involved stations in VK1, VK2, VK3, VK5, VK6, VK7 and ZL1 using Olivia and JT65 on 30m and 20m. Andy VK3YT says PS-23 landed near Tamworth to be recovered by a team of Scouts from the local JOTA, led by …
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The Diploma 'Bucharest 555'
Every radio connection brings you a point/band and/or work mode (CW, PH, RTTY, PSK, other DG( – a single category: JT65, ROS, Olivia, Hell, etc.) You can work with any authorised band. There are not accepted the connection through repeater with or …
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Ham Radio balloon to commemorate Sputnik
Please e-mail (christo.kriek@live.co.za) a screen print of the decoded message with date, time, GPS location, radio and antenna used to receive a special certificate from the launch team, if you are one of the lucky ones that can "decode" by ear please …
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Ham Radio at Monkton Stargazing Weekend
Daytime – we will have solar telescopes to observe the Sun's surface and prominences. We will have on show the only Solar Ionospheric Disturbance monitor in the United Kingdom which will indicate when the Sun is giving out a solar flare – of huge …
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Test radioveho modulu RADIOMETRIX NTX2. STS-1 – Stratospheric Balloon Project – http://balon.xit.sk.
A simple party-style balloon carrying a 434 MHz solar-powered Amateur Radio transmitter is nearing the end of its trip around the Northern Hemisphere. Launched on July 12 from the UK by Leo Bodnar, M0XER, the so-called B-64 balloon is expected to complete its final transatlantic crossing over Cornwall in the UK on July 31 or August 1. It then is expected to continue east into Europe. So far the…
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Arizona Near Space Research plans to launch a high-altitude balloon flight, ANSR-81/ASCEND!-17, on March 29, 2014 at 0900 MST (1600 UTC). The flight from the University of Arizona Maricopa Agricultural Center (DM43ab) will be the 17th in a series of ASCEND! flights sponsored by the Arizona Space Grant Consortium.
The payloads will contain a variety of scientific apparatus designed and construct…
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I Dragged a trolley up to the top of the hill to contact the balloon, I had a truck battery on there with an alinco dr635 and a mobile dual band antenna, I a…
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On 01.09.2013 ., at 13.00 hours local time, 11:00 UTC, on a football field FC “Bilogora” in Kapela, near Bjelovar, members of the Radio Club “Bilogora” Bjelo…
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Friday the 13th came early for cluster balloonist and radio amateur Jonathan Trappe, KJ4GQV, of Raleigh, North Carolina. Trappe’s attempt to cross the Atlantic in a cluster balloon ended the evening of September 12, when he “Landed safe, at an alternate location,” as he put it in a Facebook post. That “alternate location” was in Newfoundland, where he remained for the night.
His lighter-than-ai…
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Radio amateur Jonathan Trappe, KJ4GQV, of Raleigh, North Carolina is trying to cross the Atlantic in a cluster balloon. He took off September 12 at 1200 UTC from Caribou, Maine. According to a reporton AMSAT-UK, Trappe is carrying Amateur Radio beacons on 14.0956 MHz and 144.390 MHz APRS.
The 14.0956 MHz beacon is just above the WSPR frequency (approximately 1880 Hz in the waterfall display), ru…
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Norton Update 12/15/2012. Bobby Whitaker designed and built a prototype balloon airborne repeater that can be used for the ASP2 Norton Search plane. It can b…
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Reception of the K6RPT-11 APRS Balloon flying over AZORES
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