Brandon Hockle, NQ1W, writes:Just a heads up (no pun intended) about our latest pico balloon launch that took place this morning around 9AM from Pony Express Fields in Essex to celebrate Memorial Day.
You can track this new balloon at:
We are transmitting on the fours :04; :14, :24, etc. using WSPR aka Weak Signal Propagation Reporting on 20m at 14.09718 MHz at 10mW as NQ1W.
Wish us luck as this one was a bit of a last minute Hail Mary and has some quirky balloon characteristics. We’re not expecting a lot but gave it a shot anyway since we probably won’t get another window until after hurricane season. We checked the winds this morning and saw a straight shot out over the Atlantic and rolled the dice.
We’ll do more of these in the future and hope you’ll get involved with us tracking or building one of your own!
Regards and 73!
Brandon NQ1W