The Project Horus team will be presenting a talk on the project at the WIA AGM to be held in Mildura over the weekend of May 25-27. The talk itself will be on the Saturday, however Sunday morning we are going to be flying the balloon repeater, APRS and telemetry payloads as well. This will give conference attendees the opportunity to see launch operations as well as the chase vehicle setups we use to run these flights.

As this flight will be launching from Mildura, it will also be the first time the balloon repeater is accessible from 5 states and 4 capital cities at the same time. The footprint will extend to cover VK1-Canberra, VK2-Sydney, VK3-Melbourne, VK5-Adelaide and the NW Coast of VK7. The window for contacts covering that footprint will only be ~30 minutes at apogee. In all, 2,000,000 sqkm of SE Australia will be able to see the balloon repeater as the footprint will extend to approximately a 1600km diameter.

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VK Logger

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So it’s the day before I’m flying out to San Francisco and I’d just like to thank Canonical for sponsoring me to attend the Ubuntu Developer Summit in Oakland, CA. UDS is by far my most anticipated Ubuntu/Linux related event – Ubuntu for five full days! I’d just like to send out a “Thanks a lot” to the Ubuntu California team who have set up information to guide attendees from the airports to the venue. It’s much easier than trying to figure all the specific details out by yourself

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