The Secunda Amateur Radio Club Launched a Balloon Carrying Amateur Radio (known as the BACAR project) on Saturday 30 October at around 07h15 SAST. Several interesting payloads were active, including the new AMSAT-SA AfriCUBE linear transponder, Slow Scan TV, a crossband FM repeater, and an ion thruster scientific experiment. Amateurs from various Amateur Radio Clubs were involved in this project. Herewith a few APRS images of the flight.
I want to thank Gert ZS6GC and Cor ZS6CR for providing me with information and operating frequencies used during the BACAR flight. Unfortunately I am situated right in the Southern part of South Africa and nothing was heard on any frequencies, but APRS-fi provided some data and images.
