The search for the balloon
Late Saturday evening I got a message from a Dutch Ham that James M6JCX has launched a experimental balloon from Cambridge, UK. At that time the last position report was about 5 km west of my QTH.
As it was dark and way to late I went near to that location yesterday morning for a little search. Later a prediction for a possible landing location was about 10 km to the east, but also no luck there yesterday....
This afternoon, after work I went back and searched for it just south of the village called Ottoland. At 17:00 local time (16:00 UTC) I heared the CW beacon very weak. The beacon comes from a small 10 miliWatt transmitter with a transponder at a frequency of 434.072 MHz.
Tomorrow I will go back to that area and try to triangulate the signals into a position so I can recover the balloon and the equipment. I hope the weather is better than it was today....
Thank's for all Elmar, and
Thank's for all Elmar, and nice video
PD7BS Berend
Fantastic!
Very well done on the recovery of the payload, Elmar!
I hope you had fun looking for it - we certainly did while tracking it on Saturday afternoon and evening in the UK. First time I've used an old 433MHz yagi I found in the garage as well...
Hopefully catch you on the air some time.
73,
Rob, M0VFC
halo4 recovery
HI all, ad PD3EM,
With 10 mw the balise is not to far !
minus one km, about listen position ?
See to the East, of position middle of Ottoland and Giessenburg
perhaps ?
Wind was to the East saturday evening when HALO4 falling.
Please, when You have any information, contact me on
f6agv@free.fr Good luck for search.
PS : what is your antenna ?
Ballast Halo 4 found
Hi Alan and all others,
This afternoon I found the payload from the Balloon.
All details will follow as soon as possible tonight.
73, Elmar PD3EM