I am Drew Deskur, KA1M, and I am the Director of the Kopernik Observatory, a public observatory and Informal STEM Education Center in Vestal, New York, in the ARRL Western New York Section in south central New York State. www.kopernik.org
On Wednesday, August 13, Kopernik Observatory will be running a High Altitude Balloon camp for local high school students. On the payload of the balloon, we will be running APRS (K2ZRO-9) for tracking and we will also be flying SSTV on 145. 600 throughout the flight. We plan to launch hopefully between 10 to 10:30 AM (1400-1430 UTC) and the balloon should reach over 100,000 feet. In previous balloon flights, we have had APRS reports from up in Canada. Total flight time should be approximately 3 hours.
Please track the flight on aprs.fi and download the SSTV images if you are able to do so. We would love to receive copies of images received from stations in the Northeast and elsewhere so we can share with the students how altitude matters on VHF. Please send those images to k2zro@kopernik.org. Thank you!
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Drew Deskur KA1M
Executive Director
Kopernik Observatory & Science Center
Look Up… Dream Big!
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