Another SSTV HAB in NY - August 22nd

70000 ft and just turned SW. I feel like I can hear a faint signal in the noise as well. Calculations says I need 80000 to get line of sight.

 

This came in a few minutes ago in Central NY

 

Signal is faint and fadey, I can tell that there's SSTV but no decode as yet.

 

What SSTV mode is it?

 

I received a date stamp of 11:32:42. That's the only part of the image that decoded!

 

Southern Chesapeake Bay : -55 dB Detecting signal, too weak to process. However , antenna is RHCP QFH Omni used for NOAA satellites , if I had a beam , it would
Likely be copiable.

Good job !

 

Looks like it burst at 11:34. It's dropped 30,000 feet.

 

Martin 1

 

APRS shows it’s still up there but I’ve lost the sstv signal

 

K2ZRO-9 for APRS

 

It looks like it was descending from about 11:40. At 12:00 it was at 4000 ft. I never did hear a signal. I’m in Pittsburgh though. I did hear the June balloon on my HT here though so I was hoping to.

 

39,ooo’ at 53 mph.....I think it’s blown!

 

Looks like several people captured some very nice images! Congrats! Turns out I was stuck in the Toronto airport the whole time, and my flight got canceled. had to drive back the Philly overnight.

 

Thanks! Sorry you missed it and your flight got cancelled

 

Thanks to all for listening in and supporting/showing interest! Looks like we hit a little over 101,000 feet, but only used 2 watts this time for SSTV and also the Pi volume was turned down to 50% to prevent clipping, but I wonder if I should have had it turned all the way up? I like the idea of trying to fly a cross-band repeater made from a couple of those radio modules sometime - maybe get some folks excited for 2 meter "dx"...