School to launch 434 MHz balloon

Wirral Grammar School for Girls hope to launch a 434 MHz balloon on Wednesday 2 October 2013 from Middleton Hill near Welshpool

The payload will consist of a camera and the following trackers, lifted by a 1200g Hwoyee:

• WGGS1 : 50 baud 7n2 ASCII RTTY on 434.3 MHz, 10 mW, 470 Hz shift
• WGGS1-B : 50 baud 7n2 ASCII RTTY on 869.8 MHz, 5 mW, 320 Hz shift

The 869.8 MHz tracker is intended as a spare/experiment, it's antenna is a dipole attached to the side of the payload, so may not give a very uniform radiation pattern from it. Polarisation is vertical.

Wirral Grammar School for Girls - http://www.wirralgirls.co.uk/

Real-time balloon tracker - http://www.spacenear.us/tracker

Beginners Guide to Tracking using dl-fldigi - http://ukhas.org.uk/guides:tracking_guide