Southern New England CW and RTTY Balloon
SkyQuest 3
Region: Eastern Massachusetts/ Taunton
Date/Time: Sunday, May 21 / sometime after noontime
Location: Taunton, Massachusetts at the Miles Standish
Industrial Park office of National Weather
Service - map
Coordinates: 41.90 north
71.09 west
Telemetry: inside temp, outside temp for CW;
two temps and battery voltage in RTTY.
Note: neither of the following signals
is FM mode or audio on FM; signals may be
sensed or noticed easily on a regular
FM receiver, but demodulation requires a
CW receiver (typically a SSB receiver).
~144.0048 MHz CW and on-off keyed RTTY
(vertically polarized); frequency subject
to several KHz drift due to extreme cold
temperature exposure during flight.
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Those interested in acquiring SkyQuest experimental or SkyQuest
3 signals should subscribe to the SkyQuest email list to get launch
advisories right up to liftoff; just email me with your name and
location.
Those interested in helping out with the 2 meter CW/RTTY telemetry
station at Taunton on May 20 please email me at
Hank Riley, N1LTV
h1riley@umassd.edu
SkyQuest page with SQ2 (1998 NWS launch) bulletins, launch photos, CQ VHF magazine SkyQuest photo page, and other useful information
telemetry data format description