MASSACHUSETTS RADIOSONDE BALLOON LAUNCH
                              SKYQUEST-2


  Region:             Eastern Massachusetts

  Date/Time:          Saturday, May 30 / 1:00 - 2:00 PM
                      (preliminary; specific time available
                      later this month)

  Rain date:          Sunday, May 31

  Location:           National Weather Service (open house),
                      Myles Standish Industrial Park,
                      Taunton, Massachusetts

  Other states where
  the signals will    Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Hampshire,
  reach easily:       Vermont, Maine, New York

  Telemetry:          2 meter FM audio tone telemetry at 145.61 MHz;
                      two temperature channels, one altitude.
                      Click for  preliminary telemetry format
                       timed telemetry cycle graphic.
                       typical balloon tracks on a
                      color map of eastern Massachusetts

  HF Net:             3.860 MHz starting about 1300 EDT, 1700 UTC
                      for check-ins about 15 minutes before flight
                      begins; your net control operator: Steve Ford
                      at W1AW, Newington CT; 1500 watts SSB

  VHF:                launch announcement will be attempted on the
                      145.23 repeater, Boston


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