The BBC are launching a balloon into the stratosphere today as part of the 'Stargazing' programme
http://twitter.com/BBCSkyBalloon
I don't know what freqs it might use, but weather balloons tend to be 402–405 MHz, no doubt there will other UHF/SHF? freqs re any camera on board.
Launch scheduled for 11:00 from Marble Arch Caves near the village of Florencecourt in County Fermanagh
BBC Sky Balloon
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KEY : = channel/stud | ~ = CTCSS/DCS | ^ = transmitter site | ¯ = overhead | * = trunked
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Re: BBC Sky Balloon
Interesting, from the twitter feed it seems they are using a SPOT GPS tracker
they were apparently testing it the other day, so assume this will the page
http://share.findmespot.com/shared/face ... TBeh3zGRWU
Reading up it seems this device sends locations messages received by the LEO GEOS satellites on 1.6GHz
The payload has a video camera (to be retrieved later) but they have tweeted that they are sending out photo during the flight, no idea how..
they were apparently testing it the other day, so assume this will the page
http://share.findmespot.com/shared/face ... TBeh3zGRWU
Reading up it seems this device sends locations messages received by the LEO GEOS satellites on 1.6GHz
The payload has a video camera (to be retrieved later) but they have tweeted that they are sending out photo during the flight, no idea how..
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There is a balloon downlink on 404.2 now, but I don't know if it is the BBC one or something else entirely.
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Re: BBC Sky Balloon
That's probably the sonde from Cambourne. The BBC balloon should be using 434.65MHz.Minus1 wrote:There is a balloon downlink on 404.2 now, but I don't know if it is the BBC one or something else entirely.
my friend grafter, seems like you are using a very offensive tone in the reply.