(Project Blue Horizon is a multi-year project to design, construct, and launch an amateur balloon with the aim of surpassing distance, duration, and altitude records.)
The Project Blue Horizon 6 high-altitude transatlantic balloon flight started Friday, March 23 at 2300 EST (0300 Saturday UT) from Owego, NY transmitting on 7.1023 and 10.1466 MHz CW and 144.390 MHz FM APRS.
The Project Blue Horizon team is attempting to break current Amateur Radio high-altitude balloon record for duration and duration (57 hours 2 minutes). The team currently estimate a 4400 mile flight spanning 100 hours. Please see http://www.projectbluehorizon.com/ for detailed flight path information.
The payload will be carried beneath a 54,000 cubic foot capacity helium-filled balloon cruising between 85,000 and 100,000 feet.
During the flight amateurs worldwide are encouraged to monitor the N2XE CW telemetry beacons at 7.1023 and 10.1466 MHz. The balloon is also equipped with an APRS beacon at 144.39 MHz using the call sign KD2AUD.
Amateurs can send reports via e-mail to pbh18.data@gmail.com or manually enter received data points at http://www.projectbluehorizon.com/
More information about the program is at the Project Blue Horizon website. Launch and flight updates will also be available on Twitter @PBHVI
NOTE: If you or anyone else knows a Ham operator in the Azores who can communicate with the payload please send the contact information to pbh18.data@gmail.com Blue Horizon will require communications with the payload as it approaches the Azores.
Project Blue Horizon
http://www.projectbluehorizon.com/
- Southgate Amateur Radio News
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