{"id":7260,"date":"2014-05-23T22:05:53","date_gmt":"2014-05-24T03:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/?p=7260"},"modified":"2016-04-11T07:14:59","modified_gmt":"2016-04-11T12:14:59","slug":"high-altitude-near-space-balloon-launch-may-31-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/?p=7260","title":{"rendered":"High Altitude Near Space Balloon Launch &#8211; May 31, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-7261 \" src=\"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Beaumont_ARC_Balloon_Launch_Logo-348x350.jpg\" alt=\"Beaumont_ARC_Balloon_Launch_Logo\" width=\"249\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Beaumont_ARC_Balloon_Launch_Logo-348x350.jpg 348w, https:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Beaumont_ARC_Balloon_Launch_Logo-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Beaumont_ARC_Balloon_Launch_Logo.jpg 653w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 249px) 100vw, 249px\" \/><strong>The Beaumont Amateur Radio Club will be launching another High Altitude Near Space Balloon on Saturday, May 31, 2014 around 8am.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Actual launch time will very, depending on launch preparations and weather\u00a0conditions\u00a0that morning.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Launch site<\/strong> will be the Beaumont Municipal Airport, 455 Keith Road at Hwy 90 (College Street), Beaumont, Texas<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pay Load Includes:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>APRS\/GPS positioning\/locating for altitude, direction, distance and speed. Can watch this info live via RF or from <a href=\"http:\/\/aprs.fi\/\">www.aprs.fi<\/a>.\u00a0 Call sign for the balloon will be\u00a0W5RIN-8.\u00a0\u00a0 Here is a direct link.. <a href=\"http:\/\/aprs.fi\/#!mt=roadmap&amp;z=11&amp;call=a%2FW5RIN-8&amp;timerange=3600&amp;tail=3600\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/aprs.fi\/#!mt=roadmap&amp;z=11&amp;call=a%2FW5RIN-8&amp;timerange=3600&amp;tail=3600<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Telemetry to monitor Package Temperature, Ambient Temperature, Battery Voltage<\/li>\n<li>HAM Radio Live Feed TV Camera\u00a0(Slow scan TV?)<\/li>\n<li>HAM Radio Cross Band Repeater:\n<ul>\n<li>Uplink to Balloon: 446.000 MHz<\/li>\n<li>Down Link from Balloon: 146.565 MHz<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>More information about past\u00a0balloon launches by\u00a0the Beaumont Amateur Radio Club can be found online at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.qsl.net\/w5rin\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.qsl.net\/w5rin\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Beaumont Amateur Radio Club will be launching another High Altitude Near Space Balloon on Saturday, May 31, 2014 around 8am.\u00a0\u00a0 Actual launch time will very, depending on launch preparations and weather\u00a0conditions\u00a0that morning. Launch site will be the Beaumont Municipal Airport, 455 Keith Road at Hwy 90 (College Street), Beaumont, Texas Pay Load Includes: APRS\/GPS [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[685],"tags":[779,686],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7260"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7260"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8020,"href":"https:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7260\/revisions\/8020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}