{"id":682,"date":"2024-11-04T18:15:13","date_gmt":"2024-11-04T23:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/umarc.eecs.umich.edu\/?page_id=682"},"modified":"2024-11-12T20:48:51","modified_gmt":"2024-11-13T01:48:51","slug":"high-altitude-balloon-monitoring","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/umarc.eecs.umich.edu\/index.php\/high-altitude-balloon-monitoring\/","title":{"rendered":"High-Altitude Balloon Monitoring"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>High Altitude Balloon Tracking Group (est. 2019)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The High-Altitude Balloon Tracking Group was formed to assist aerospace students who had difficulty tracking and retrieving their balloon payloads.&nbsp; Concerns about interfering with APRS messaging led to an innovative change in existing methods.&nbsp; Presently, balloons now transmit on a non-APRS frequency.&nbsp; These non-APRS transmissions are received directly, via RF, and are used to control the rotation of the VHF satellite antennas.&nbsp; This position reporting is then exported onto APRS for viewing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Balloon Group Publications<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol style=\"list-style-type:lower-alpha\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>K9YA Telegraph, June 2024. \u00a0W8UM High Altitude Balloon Tracking Program<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ardc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/K9YA-Telegraph-JUN-2024-W8UM-REPRINT.pdf\">https:\/\/www.ardc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/K9YA-Telegraph-JUN-2024-W8UM-REPRINT.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>High Altitude Balloon Tracking Group (est. 2019) The High-Altitude Balloon Tracking Group was formed to assist aerospace students who had difficulty tracking and retrieving their balloon payloads.&nbsp; Concerns about interfering with APRS messaging led to an innovative change in existing methods.&nbsp; Presently, balloons now transmit on a non-APRS frequency.&nbsp; These non-APRS transmissions are received directly, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9192203,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-682","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/umarc.eecs.umich.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/umarc.eecs.umich.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/umarc.eecs.umich.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umarc.eecs.umich.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9192203"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umarc.eecs.umich.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=682"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/umarc.eecs.umich.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":915,"href":"https:\/\/umarc.eecs.umich.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/682\/revisions\/915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/umarc.eecs.umich.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}