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Hi all,

FYI, PS-34 is in the air. Unplanned last minute release.

Solar powered party balloon, 10mW TX
APRS on 145.175Mhz
Olivia 8/250 with RSID on 434.649Mhz USB (Dial frequency)

Tracking as PS-34 on SNUS http://spacenear.us
and VK3YT-11 on APRS.FI http://aprs.fi/#!mt=roadmap&z=11&call=a ... &tail=3600
Prediction



Andy
VK3YT

hi all..

OK Andy....is there a test in this one......

Gives me time to get some shopping down before it gets up this way......

Tracking well on Olivia north of melbourne

$$PS-34,56,22:01:11,-36.8131,145.3655,7575,75.64,4,3,4,4183,1029 1101*7838

Hi Andy, I just decoded it as

VK3YT-11>APZ269,WIDE2-1:!/_^[(sPOCO etc etc

and my mountaintop fill-in 1-1 digi wont repeat it to our local igate which is vk2asy

what do i have to change in the configuration of the vk2jds-1 digi to make it repeat the balloon transmission?
its good to see i am decoding them
73 dave

VK2JDS wrote:Hi Andy, I just decoded it as

VK3YT-11>APZ269,WIDE2-1:!/_^[(sPOCO etc etc

and my mountaintop fill-in 1-1 digi wont repeat it to our local igate which is vk2asy

what do i have to change in the configuration of the vk2jds-1 digi to make it repeat the balloon transmission?
its good to see i am decoding them
73 dave

Hi Dave,
The balloon uses compressed APRS format, so maybe that is what you need to enable?
The path is WIDE2-1.
Regards,
Andy

Ok, thanks, but jds-1 is set as a 1-1 digi. how do i get it to digipeat the balloon ?

also no packets have gone into the local gate via me or the vk2rao digi, or even directly into the gate itself, although its signal is there and decodes at my place ...

its been suggested i set the alias on the tinytrak4 to wide1 and wide2 on vk2jds-1 that might fix it ?
Dave

I must be losing my touch with APRS.
Looking at the raw packets I'm trying to work out what's going on here.
There's a clear half hour delay with packets coming via VK2RBX-1 and VK3WRM-1
It appears that VK2RBX-1 is functioning correctly, so I suspect there is something wrong with VK3WRM's settings.
Is anybody able to give him a heads up?

2015-02-15 11:30:00 EST: VK3YT-11>APZ269,WIDE2-1,qAR,VK2XSE-1:!/`;f?sCF2O%S!/A=030291|56,11,3,6,1,1225,4268,0101
2015-02-15 11:30:02 EST: VK3YT-11>APZ269,VK2RBX-1*,WIDE2*,qAR,VK3WRM-1:!/`Kx%s?{_O%S!/A=030176|50,8,3,6,5,1263,4260,1101 [Rate limited (< 5 sec)]
2015-02-15 11:35:00 EST: VK3YT-11>APZ269,WIDE2-1,qAR,VK2XSE-1:!/`8z"sD!LO%T!/A=030321|57,11,3,6,1,1263,4268,0101
2015-02-15 11:35:38 EST: VK3YT-11>APZ269,VK2RBX-1*,WIDE2*,qAR,VK3WRM-1:!/`I5\s@QDO%S!/A=030242|51,12,3,6,4,1114,4268,010d [Location changes too fast (adaptive limit)]
2015-02-15 11:40:00 EST: VK3YT-11>APZ269,WIDE2-1,qAR,VK2XSE-1:!/`6/qsDWfO%T!/A=030330|58,11,3,6,3,1227,4268,0101
2015-02-15 11:40:01 EST: VK3YT-11>APZ269,VK2RBX-1*,WIDE2*,qAR,VK3WRM-1:!/`FV$sA)GO%S!/A=030327|52,13,3,6,6,1176,4276,1101 [Rate limited (< 5 sec)]
2015-02-15 11:45:00 EST: VK3YT-11>APZ269,WIDE2-1,qAR,VK2XSE-1:!/`32KsE6\O%T!/A=030340|59,11,3,6,4,1197,4260,1101
2015-02-15 11:45:02 EST: VK3YT-11>APZ269,VK2RBX-1*,WIDE2*,qAR,VK3WRM-1:!/`Cz7sA[yO%S!/A=030216|53,13,3,6,1,1149,4280,1101 [Rate limited (< 5 sec)]
2015-02-15 11:50:00 EST: VK3YT-11>APZ269,WIDE2-1,qAR,VK2XSE-1:!/`0D`sEnXO&T!/A=030271|60,11,3,6,1,1137,4260,0101
2015-02-15 11:55:00 EST: VK3YT-11>APZ269,WIDE2-1,qAR,VK2XSE-1:!/`-^ysFJgO&T!/A=030262|61,11,3,6,0,1241,4268,0101
2015-02-15 11:55:03 EST: VK3YT-11>APZ269,VK2RBX-1*,WIDE2*,qAR,VK3WRM-1:!/`A3nsB5FO%S!/A=030258|54,13,3,6,2,1248,4276,1101 [Rate limited (< 5 sec)]
2015-02-15 12:00:00 EST: VK3YT-11>APZ269,WIDE2-1,qAR,VK2XSE-1:!/`*`6sG--O&T!/A=030350|62,11,3,6,0,1261,4260,1101
2015-02-15 12:02:34 EST: VK3YT-11>APZ269,VK2RBX-1*,WIDE2*,qAR,VK3WRM-1:!/`>H.sBkLO&S!/A=030285|55,12,3,6,2,1252,4268,0101 [Location changes too fast (adaptive limit)]
2015-02-15 12:03:17 EST: VK3YT-11>APZ269,VK2RBX-1*,WIDE2*,qAR,VK3WRM-1:!/`;f?sCF2O%S!/A=030291|56,11,3,6,1,1225,4268,0101 [Duplicate position packet]
2015-02-15 12:05:00 EST: VK3YT-11>APZ269,WIDE2-1,qAR,VK2XSE-1:!/`'h-sGh8O&T!/A=030209|63,11,3,6,1,1231,4260,0101 [Location changes too fast (adaptive limit)]
2015-02-15 12:05:03 EST: VK3YT-11>APZ269,VK2RBX-1*,WIDE2*,qAR,VK3WRM-1:!/`8z"sD!LO%T!/A=030321|57,11,3,6,1,1263,4268,0101 [Location changes too fast (adaptive limit)]
2015-02-15 12:10:00 EST: VK3YT-11>APZ269,WIDE2-1,qAR,VK2XSE-1:!/`$s3sHILO&T!/A=030248|64,11,3,6,0,1108,4260,1101
2015-02-15 12:15:00 EST: VK3YT-11>APZ269,WIDE2-1,qAR,VK2XSE-1:!/`!zqsI*TO&T!/A=030239|65,11,3,6,0,1176,4268,0101
2015-02-15 12:16:05 EST: VK3YT-11>APZ269,WIDE2-1,qAS,VK2KAW:!/`!zqsI*TO&T!/A=030239|65,11,3,6,0,1176,4268,0101
2015-02-15 12:18:30 EST: VK3YT-11>APZ269,VK2RBX-1*,WIDE2*,qAR,VK3WRM-1:!/`6/qsDWfO%T!/A=030330|58,11,3,6,3,1227,4268,0101 [Location changes too fast (adaptive limit)]
2015-02-15 12:19:58 EST: VK3YT-11>APZ269,VK2RBX-1*,WIDE2*,qAR,VK3WRM-1:!/`32KsE6\O%T!/A=030340|59,11,3,6,4,1197,4260,1101 [Duplicate position packet]
2015-02-15 12:20:00 EST: VK3YT-11>APZ269,WIDE2-1,qAR,VK2XSE-1:!/_yycsIhBO&T!/A=030353|66,9,3,6,1,1224,4268,1102 [Location changes too fast (adaptive limit)]
2015-02-15 12:20:44 EST: VK3YT-11>APZ269,VK2RWG-1,WIDE2*,qAS,VK2KAW:!/_yycsIhBO&T!/A=030353|66,9,3,6,1,1224,4268,1102
2015-02-15 12:25:00 EST: VK3YT-11>APZ269,WIDE2-1,qAR,VK2XSE-1:!/_w.>sJGLO&T!/A=030275|67,10,3,6,-2,1139,4268,1101

VK2JDS wrote:Ok, thanks, but jds-1 is set as a 1-1 digi. how do i get it to digipeat the balloon ?

also no packets have gone into the local gate via me or the vk2rao digi, or even directly into the gate itself, although its signal is there and decodes at my place ...

its been suggested i set the alias on the tinytrak4 to wide1 and wide2 on vk2jds-1 that might fix it ?
Dave

Opps I misread your initial post
I assume the digipeater is setup as a fill-in and only responses to WIDE1-1 path?
Not sure how you can change this behaviour without reconfiguring the digipeater.

Regards,
Andy

Whats the software to use to decode this? Looks lime 3-4 hours it should be on my horizon

Adrian

No worries Andy, its now configured as alias1 wide1 , and alias2 wide2
i have been up and down off the mountain several times today with laptop , radios and cabling to fix it.
so far no problems on the local network, i have consulted with the gate operator Kim vk2asy, so its all set and should digipeat your next fly by
btw, the DR135 alinco got replaced by a ic22s and it decoded your balloon well. the alinco was finicky about only decoding packets with exactly the right deviation, whereas the 22s decodes everything
73 Dave

VK4KL wrote:Whats the software to use to decode this? Looks lime 3-4 hours it should be on my horizon

Adrian

dl-fldigi Adrian, details in email.
I should make this part of some instructions
Regards,
Andy

Did not manage to decode anything must be something not quite right my end. All I got was garbage on screen

Will investigate when I feel better

Adrian

Updated prediction

Might just be within range of ZL1 stations tomorrow morning

Hi all...

I see the Balloon has made it to NZ and flying past doing about 201km/h

Next stop South America...

Yes PS-34 made a fly-by passing Northern Coast of New Zealand this morning.
Updated prediction:

Hi all...

moment of truth for the Balloon this evening...

It should be within range of Sth America by around 5pm , over land by about 11pm....based on predictions ...so a bit of give and take on the times..