ANSR-62 balloon flight announcement for April 30, 2011
Sat, 04/02/2011 - 17:40 — AC7ZT
Arizona Near Space Research (ANSR) is pleased to announce the flight of ANSR-62. This high altitude balloon flight will take place on Saturday, April 30, 2011 at 9:00 A.M. The primary launch site will be the University of Arizona Maricopa Agricultural Center, near Maricopa, AZ (33 deg 04.42 min, 111 deg 58.97 min. The secondary (high upper winds) site will be the Gila Bend High School in Gila Bend, AZ. The final launch site choice will depend on the predicted winds aloft. Watch for additional announcements prior to launch day.
The balloon will be a 3000-gram weather balloon, filled with helium. The expected burst altitude will be 90,000 feet or more. The flight is anticipated to last about 2.5 hours from launch to touchdown.
The balloon will carry nine student-built payload packages containing a variety of scientific apparatus as well as digital cameras to photo-document the flight. This will be second of two Spring 2011 flights for the Northern Arizona University (NAU) and AZ Space Grant "Changes in Altitudes" program. This project involves the following schools:
Sechrist Elementary - Flagstaff
Sinagua Middle School - Flag (2 teams)
Mt. Elden Middle School - Flagstaff
The Peak School - Flagstaff
Perry High School - Gilbert
Brimhall Jr. High School - Mesa
Sabino H.S. - Tucson
Camp Verde H.S.
We thank NAU and AZ Space Grant for helping us fulfill our goal of "Promoting Science and Education through Amateur Radio and High Altitude Balloons."
APRS Beacons will transmit position information as follows:
KA7NSR-11 and KA7NSR-12 both on 445.950 MHz
The ANSR Cross-Band Repeater will operate with an input frequency of 145.56 MHz with a 162.2 Hz tone, and an output of 445.525 MHz. While contacts (especially DX) are welcome, please give priority to chase team members.
It is planned to place the repeater on IRLP node 9256.
Our mobile cross band Digipeater will repeat the beacon(s) APRS data to the 144.390 MHz standard APRS frequency and subsequently will be I-GATED to the Internet for out-of-area trackers. You can track the flight using the following links:
http://map.aprsworld.net/ka7nsr-11 or ka7nsr-12
http://aprs.fi/?call=ka7nsr-11 or ka7nsr-12
http://www.findu.com/cgi-bin/find.cgi?call=ka7nsr-11 or ka7nsr-12
Be sure to check http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Ballooning for updates to this announcement prior to the flight.
Jack Crabtree, W7JLC
ANSR Vice President
ANSR/AZ Space Grant Liaison
