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Pico balloon PS-68 - what happened? - VK4ADC - 11-09-2016 Just before VKLogger shut down for posts, Andy VK3YT posted: Hi all, PS-68 is planned for release at 7am Sat 27 Aug 2016 AEST. Solar powered party balloon, 10mW TX APRS on 145.175Mhz Olivia 8/250 with RSID on 434.649Mhz USB (Dial frequency) Tracking as PS-68 on SNUS https://tracker.habhub.org/#!mt=roadmap ... ay&f=PS-68 and VK3YT-11 on APRS.FI http://aprs.fi/#!mt=roadmap&z=11&call=a ... tail=43200 Prediction (the red line) Image Assistance with tracking is appreciated. Instructions for tracking can be found here http://picospace.net/?p=736 There should be someone on the IRC forum to help with setup http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=picospace Andy VK3YT What happened ? Did it make it to SE Qld ? I try to keep across these but that weekend got very busy. Doug VK4ADC Re: Pico balloon PS-68 - what happened? - VK4ALF - 11-09-2016 Hi Doug it made it the the boarder and then swung east The digipeater at Nambour saw it but i did not on Olivia at Yandina I guess it i went portable i might have It was then seen by APRS north and south island and i think Bob ZL1RS has an olivia spot then it went ease after doing a loop over ZL Theres a few screen shots on my HAB Facebook page Re: Pico balloon PS-68 - what happened? - VK4ADC - 14-09-2016 Len I meant to reply a couple of days ago but missed out doing it. My original intention was to see if I could hear/decode this one if it came close enough but that weekend went crazy. Hopefully Andy VK3YT will be posting future launches on this forum. 73 Doug Re: Pico balloon PS-68 - what happened? - VK2FAK - 26-01-2017 Hi all.. We don't at this stage think that the Balloon has gone down, if that was the case there should of been some shorter period TX's which were not recorded anywhere. This Balloon has had a glitch or 2 with the TX, so could just be a gps issue or something else. So don't give up on it just yet.....were looking for any signs of life from it, including CW burst indicating its trying to reset, that will be up around the JT9 freq.. John