[AMSAT-UK] UK student balloon crosses Pacific
 

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UK student balloon crosses Pacific

Posted: 02 Sep 2016 08:48 AM PDT
https://amsat-uk.org/2016/09/02/uk-s...osses-pacific/

UBSEDS18 Solar Powered Balloon

The UK balloon UBSEDS18 carrying payloads for APRS and 434 MHz has
successfully crossed the Pacific, on the same day a USA amateur radio APRS
balloon crossed the Atlantic.

The solar powered UBSEDS18 was developed by students from Bristol
University and launched on Wednesday, August 17. Since then it has traveled
in an easterly direction for 20,252 km completing the Pacific crossing on
Thursday, September 1, 2016.

UBSEDS18

https://twitter.com/bristolseds

http://www.bristol-seds.co.uk/hab/fl.../ubseds18.html

https://tracker.habhub.org/#!mt=road...S18&q=UBSEDS18

The amateur radio APRS balloon CNSP30 was launched from California on
August 25 and on September 1 crossed the coast of northern France. Its APRS
signal was receivable across central and southern England.

CNSP30

https://twitter.com/K6RPT

http://www.cnsp-inc.com/cnsp-30/

http://aprs.fi/#!call=a%2FK6RPT-11&t...00&tail=604800

Richard Meadows M0SBU, who worked on the development of UBSEDS18, took the
amateur radio training courses run by the Chelmsford Amateur Radio Society
(CARS) at Danbury in Essex. Further information on the courses is available
from the CARS Training Coordinator, Christopher G0IPU

Tel: 07908-107951

Email: training2016 at g0mwt.org.uk

Web: http://g0mwt.org.uk/training