SARApod II to fly on April 25

SARApod II will fly with the U of M on Sunday afternoon on April 25 at about 2:00pm local time or 19:00 UTC. The actual launch location will not be known until Sunday morning but it will be somewhere north of the Twin Cities. You can follow the balloon flight at http://aprs.fi/?call=W0JH-11 and I will be beaconing KØBR-9 also. The mission on this flight is to try to collect dust from the on-going Lyriad meteor shower. SARA will assist the U of M in tracking and recovering the student's experiments.

If you are familiar with APRS you can query my station for possible frequencies and repeaters we will be using. I will try to list them in my station information comments if you want to try to contact us during the flight. The flight is not predicted to go very far, only about 5-20 miles from the launch site. Weather as we know is very unpredictable right now so we don’t even have a direction of travel for the balloon that is consistent from hour to hour with the current sounding models. The projected maximum altitude is about 90,000 feet.

RicKØBRennan