OH3KAV via high-altitude balloons

Ilmari-2007a

Thanks to the efforts of ILMARI-2003/2007 project, the Finnish High-altitude balloon with a linear transponder had it's maiden flight on August 2007. I almost missed the flight, but quickly got a setup with an Yaesu FT-817 and a mag whip for 144 MHz uplink and an Yaesu FT-897D and another mag whip for 437 MHz downlink. The uplink antenna was on the "wrong" side of my house but still efficient enough to get my QRP signal to the balloon.

  Michael OH2AUM managed to record my qso with OH8AA!
 

Pula-Ilmari IV

In July 2008 the team of OH6AAD club launched a Pula-Ilmari IV balloon with a FM transponder. I was driving quite close to the launch site and had some QSOs from mobile (5 watts and mag whip).
 

 
The map below shows the route of the Pula-Ilmari IV balloon (OH6SIX) and my location in KP32PF during most of the QSOs. (Map courtesy of Google Maps and aprs.fi )
 
 


 

OH3KAV 29.09.2009


Takaisin