Night Flight at 9,500 feet - DX with
airborne television
Night Flight at 9,500 feet - DX with
airborne television
With a 439 Mhz Amateur television transmitter aboard, ours
is a unique DXpedition, providing some aeronautical mobile program
variety
for the amateur television community - an alternative to the popular
balloon
launch. We've noticed that 9,500 feet works better than our towers
at home.
Click for equipment detail page
These expeditions were sponsored by myself, Christopher Scott, W4NEQ (Then WB9NEQ), and co-pilot slant ATV guru Hank Cantrell, W4HTB. We've operated from Bowling Green, KY. Launch times were typically between 2300 and 0100 UTC. Peak QSO activity was in the evening, usually on weekends, so this was the timeframe chosen.
ATV Guru / co-pilot W4HTB 
Click for flight schedule and past missions.
Click for Bi-Yagi (Uda array) detail.