[aprssig] Trans-Atlantic APRS Balloon Flight Wed 29 April!

Jeff King king.robert.j at gmail.com
Tue Apr 28 11:33:01 EDT 2009


On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 10:39 AM, Robert Bruninga <bruninga at usna.edu> wrote:

>
> > Some ... repeater users, the repeater coordination
> > group and the FCC very well could see it as willful
> > and intentional interference...
>
> Yes, your point is well taken.  So I believe the launch team for
> this historic event is making every effort to inform those
> possibly affected repeaters.  The balloon team has researched
> and identified four possible 145.41 repeaters that may be
> affected, and is attempting to contact those groups.


Sounds like they have spent alot of man hours doing this.

I wonder how much time it would have taken to put this pseudo-code in the
firmware?

if ((longitude > -30) && (longitude < 180))
     set_frequency(144800);
else
     set_frequency(144390);
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