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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><a href="http://www.projectbluehorizon.com/" target="_blank"><font face="Calibri" color="#800080" size="3">Project Blue Horizon</font></a><font face="Calibri" size="3"> is back on the air and in the skies! Our wildly successful and </font><a href="http://www.arhab.org/ARHABrecords.htm" target="_blank"><font face="Calibri" color="#800080" size="3">record breaking flights</font></a><font face="Calibri" size="3"> from prior years inspired us to aim for even loftier goals this year. Each of our two missions this year will include two flights, for a total of four balloons launched. Our first mission’s goal will be to reclaim our Highest GPS Reported Maximum Altitude <i>and </i>extend our Longest Flight Time records; our second mission will extend our Longest Flight Time record and allow us to perform scientific experiments measuring the atmospheric effects of near-space flight. </font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Calibri" size="3">We plan to launch our first mission this year sometime in early April, and we again need your expert help in tracking our balloons. As with last year, our primary method of collecting telemetry data will be on the 40 meter HF band, specifically on 7.0125 MHz. Additionally, we will use the APRS network on 144.390 MHz to track the balloons while utilizing line-of-sight to land stations connected to the APRS network. </font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Calibri" size="3">Based on the fantastic support and response from the world wide ham community, we established a </font><a href="http://www.projectbluehorizon.com/" target="_blank"><font face="Calibri" color="#800080" size="3">new website</font></a><font face="Calibri" size="3"> to centralize the tracking of data, as well as maintained our existing </font><a href="http://twitter.com/PBH3" target="_blank"><font face="Calibri" color="#800080" size="3">Twitter feed</font></a><font face="Calibri" size="3"> and </font><a href="mailto:contact@projectbluehorizon.com" target="_blank"><font face="Calibri" size="3">email list</font></a><font face="Calibri" size="3">. Please </font><a href="http://www.projectbluehorizon.com/mercuryboard/index.php?a=register" target="_blank"><font face="Calibri" color="#800080" size="3">sign up</font></a><font face="Calibri" size="3"> on our </font><a href="http://www.projectbluehorizon.com/" target="_blank"><font face="Calibri" color="#800080" size="3">website</font></a><font face="Calibri" size="3"> and </font><a href="http://twitter.com/PBH3" target="_blank"><font face="Calibri" color="#800080" size="3">follow us on Twitter</font></a><font face="Calibri" size="3"> so we can keep you informed of latest developments. If you have 40m HF equipment and are willing to track our flights, please reply with your location, call sign, email, and phone number so we can coordinate tracking of our telemetry data. Please also reply with all the requested contact information if you live in Europe, Africa, or Asia, administer APRS repeaters, and are willing to reconfigure the input frequency to listen for 144.390 MHz instead of your home frequency. </font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Calibri" size="3">Much more detailed information will be distributed as we get closer to launch (including, of course, the launch window and countdown clock). Until then, please check out our </font><a href="http://www.projectbluehorizon.com/" target="_blank"><font face="Calibri" color="#800080" size="3">website</font></a><font face="Calibri" size="3"> and reply to this address with any questions.</font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Calibri" size="3">73,</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Calibri" size="3">KC2TUA</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Calibri" size="3">Tom Triebwasser</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Calibri" size="3">PBH Alum ‘09</font></p>