[radioastro] Re: [Ballooning] Re: Research Balloon flights in Mexico
- From: Victor Herrero <hubbleed@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: Ballooning@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Arturo Garcia Cole <cole@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Enriquez, Miguel KD7RPP" <Miguel.Enriquez@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2011 17:43:20 -0700
My many thanks to:
Patrick Stoddard WD9EWK/VA7EWK http://www.wd9ewk.net/
for his information.
I congratulate the Radio Club of the State of Guanajuato. They are doing a
wonderful job in their program of balloon flights !!
Their home page:
http://craeg.remtronic.com//index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1
has a great group picture.
It indicates their SARSEM-ICARUS III flight (the third in 3 years) will be
on November 19 2011, launching at 9 am Central Mexico Time, from Leon
Guanajuato:
http://g.co/maps/76hxc
They hope to reach 39 km ~ 130000 feet
Coverage diameter 1000 km
APRS map: http://aprs.fi/?call=xe1crg-11
One QSO per station, report only: call sign - city - state
Repeater frequencies are listed
Contact: xe1brx at yahoo dot com dot mx
The left frame has links to 4 very nice pages with pictures and videos about
SARSEM-ICARUS I and II.
I look forward to following this flight
Many thanks to All for your help
Bravo Victor N7YBV
73
On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 4:02 PM, wd9ewk <yahoo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> There is a radio club in Guanajuato that has had two balloon
> launches in the past couple of years, and has another launch
> planned for November. Here are some links (all in Spanish)
> for the first two launches:
>
> http://craeg.remtronic.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=34&Itemid=68
> http://craeg.remtronic.com/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=70
> and the upcoming launch:
> http://craeg.remtronic.com/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=75
> The first two balloons had APRS transmitters on them among other
> transmitters, and the next launch will have that as well.
> 73!
>
> Patrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK
> http://www.wd9ewk.net/
>
> ._,
>
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