@ARISS_Intl I received the image in both the Robot 36 and Robot 72 formats at the #W3YP Villanova ARC club station! Thanks for the event! 73!

I received the #SSTV image on the #W3YP club station! #ARISS #HanRadio

Attached to a 2000g weather balloon will be suspended three payloads:

- A cross-band FM repeated that hams in the area can use to make contacts
- A repurposed #RS41 #radiosonde for tracking on amateur.sondehub.org
- A live video feed

I’ll be listening with the #W3YP station but it is probably too far away from Philadelphia!

Good luck to the New England Sci-Tech and the Benjamin Franklin Classical Charter Public School!

The Villanova University ARC W3YP ground station is receiving telemetry 📡 from the KB3ZOX reflashed RS-41 radiosonde high altitude balloon 🎈 as it flies up the east coast.

A little email frequency coordination was needed to make sure everyone on 431.05 MHz!

https://amateur.sondehub.org/#!mt=Mapnik&mz=7&qm=12h&mc=39.66491,-74.23462&f=KB3ZOX

#HAB #AmateurRadio #VUARC #HamRadio #RadioSonde #W3YP #balloon #KB3ZOX

The Ham Radio Field Day event is underway!

The students of the Villanova University Amateur Radio Club are operating W3YP remotely.

So far, we have made some local 2m FM contacts and some satellite contacts 🛰️(FO-29). The upcoming RS-44 pass should be promising.

Overnight we may do some digital FT8 contacts on 20m band.

Wish us luck! 😁

#ARRLFD #ARRLFD23 #AMSAT #HamRadio #W3YP #Villanova #FO-29 #RS-44 #VUARC #CubeSat #FT8

That was an amazing high altitude weather balloon flights yesterday by the #Villanova University #CubeSat Club!

Here is the dashboard summary of the flight from Sondehub.org:

https://grafana.v2.sondehub.org/d/HJgOZLq7k/basic?var-Payload=W3YP-2&from=1683128996000&to=1683139268000&orgId=1

#APRS #SSTV #radiosonde #AMSAT #STEM #CubeSatSim #W3YP #HAB

This is one of the GPS trackers on the balloon. 🎈It transmits on the standard #APRS frequency of 144.39 MHz into a twin lead J-pole antenna. The Raspberry Pi Pico reads the BME280 (temperature, pressure, humidity, altitude) and MPU6050 (gyro and accelerometer) sensors. The transmitter is an SR_FRS_0V5 FM module that transmits 500 mW. The PCB is a #CubeSatSim Beta V2 board. The GPS is a LC76G with a dipole antenna.

#HAB #AMSAT #STEM #radiosonde #RaspberryPi #W3YP

#Villanova University students will be launching two high altitude balloons Wednesday May 3 around midday. We will have #APRS & GPS trackers, live #SSTV images, & a #radiosonde! #AMSAT #STEM #CubeSatSim #W3YP #HAB

I will post links to the trackers here so anyone can follow along. If you are a ham or have an SDR or scanner in the Philadelphia/New Jersey area, I’ll post the frequencies so you can listen.

Wish us luck! 🎈📡👍🏻😁