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I am Drew Deskur, KA1M, and I am the Director of the Kopernik Observatory, a public observatory and Informal STEM Education Center in Vestal NY.  We are once again running a High Altitude Balloon camp for local high school students next week. On the payload of the balloon, we will be running APRS (K2ZRO-11) for tracking and we will also be flying SSTV on 145.600 using Martin 1 mode throughout the flight. We plan to launch on Wednesday, August 19 hopefully between 10 to 10:30 am (1400-1430Z) and the balloon should reach over 100,000 feet. Last year we had SSTV reports from New England, Canada, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Maryland. 

Would it be possible to send out a bulletin to ARRL members in the Northeast to alert them of this opportunity to track the flight on aprs.fi and download the SSTV images? We would love to get copies of images received from stations in the Northeast so we can share with the students how altitude matters on VHF. SSTV Images and signal reports can be sent to:  k2zro@kopernik.org

73, 

Drew KA1M

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Drew Deskur

Executive Director

Kopernik Observatory & Science Center