08/15/2025
The Kopernik Observatory put out a call last week for hams to receive and
decode transmissions[1] from a launch by its High Altitude Balloon Camp.
Amateur radio delivered! Social media was abuzz with images decoded from the
K2ZRO-9 transmitters. The balloon was launched from Vestal, New York, and
ascended over the Catskill Mountains. A crowd gathered at W1AW, the Hiram Percy
Maxim Memorial Station at ARRL Headquarters in Newington, Connecticut, where
Station Manager Joe Carcia, NJ1Q, was tracking it. The decoded slow scan
television (SSTV) signals showed black skies above, and cumulonimbus build ups
below the balloon. A thunderstorm complex formed while the eye in the sky was
above it. See some of the decodes are in an Instagram video from ARRLHQ[2].
[1] https://arrl.informz.net/z/cjUucD9taT0zNDA5ODE1JnA9MSZ1PTUyNTgxODI4NCZsaT0zO
TI3NTQwMQ/index.html
[2] https://arrl.informz.net/z/cjUucD9taT0zNDA5ODE1JnA9MSZ1PTUyNTgxODI4NCZsaT0zO
TI3NTQwMg/index.html
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