High altitude balloon – 2014-02-08

The Melbourne HAB team led by Andy, VK3YT, launched a balloon from Deniliquin in southern NSW on 08/02/2014.

It was my pleasure, and frustration to some extent, to receive some SSDV traffic from the balloon.

SSDV Live Images - Mozilla Firefox firefox 08/02/2014 , 14:05:53Above, the last pic before it burst at 37,000m (121,000′), what a great flight.

Copy was difficult, first 70cm SSDV data received at VK2OMD at a distance of 480km and due to frequency variation of about 50Hz superimposed on slower drift, packet decode rates were low.

More on the team's work at http://projectspaceballoon.net .

Well done guys!