The official opening of the ground station
in Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Centre
The official opening of the ground station for communication with satellites of BRITE's constellation took place in Warsaw on 6 December 2011.
The Operation of station has been demonstrated through the receipt of telemetric transmission from stratospheric balloon Bobas NG, which was launched from IMGW Institute in Legionowo. The radio amateurs could get back transmission from balloon as well.
Agenda
10:40 Welcome/open meeting in NCAC
10:45 The start of the video transmission from Legionowo
11:00 The launch of the balloon Bobas 6 in Legionowo
11:10 The end of the video transmission from Legionowo
11:10 Short speech of the director of NCAC - Prof. Marek Sarna
11:20 The official opening of the ground station
11:35 During the flight of the balloon the speech of the invited visitors, the directors of PAS, NCAC and SRC, the lecture about BRITE satellites and the refreshment
Info for the radioamateurs:
Bobas NG (info on project on www.bobas-ng.pl:
- transmitter RTTY 10mW 434,405 MHz
- transmitter ZigBee 2,4GHz
Additional link to Bobas 7:
- transmitter CW 10 mW 432.360 MHz (about) SQ5FNQ-11
- transmitter AFSK 1200 bps APRS 300mW 434.775 MHz SQ5FNQ-11
Radio contact:
Operators also used the repeater SR5WA QRG In/Out (Chan): 431.750/439.350 MHz (R98)
Operators:
Marcin SQ5FNQ
Grzegorz SQ5FG
In Internet you could follow the position BOBAS-7 and BOBAS-NG