{"id":5370,"date":"2010-11-17T10:50:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-16T23:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2010\/11\/17\/balloons-space-stations-aurora\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T18:52:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T08:52:15","slug":"balloons-space-stations-aurora","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2010\/11\/17\/balloons-space-stations-aurora\/","title":{"rendered":"Balloons!  Space Stations!  Aurora!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/29000metros.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/29000metros.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5540470324435074658\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">My in-box seemed to have an outer space theme today. First, from Guanajuato, Mexico comes word that <a href=\"http:\/\/craeg.remtronic.com\/\">the radio club there<\/a> is planning a second edge-of-space balloon launch. SARSEM ICARUS II is scheduled to go up on 20 November carrying a VHF\/UHF repeater. SARSEM ICARUS I was obviously a big success. Check out the picture it took from 29000 meters up (above)<\/span>. <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Thanks Roberto! <\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/italy.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 399px; height: 264px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/italy.jpeg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5540470667947702210\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">A couple days ago we noted that the International Space Station would be visible over N. America this week. So far we have only one report of a sighting: Jim, AL7RV saw it from Mississippi. This morning Yahoo carried some pictures taken from the crew&#8217;s cupola. This one shows some territory dear to our hearts! <\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Ole-Christian-Salomonsen2_strip.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 315px; height: 400px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Ole-Christian-Salomonsen2_strip.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5540471617159909378\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Finally, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceweather.com\">spaceweather.com<\/a> carried this beautiful aurora shot from Tromso, Norway. It was taken by Ole Christian Salomonsen on November 14. Spaceweather notes that &#8220;a solar wind stream has been buffeting the earth&#8217;s magnetic field.&#8221; This probably explains why Maria and I could hear very few stations on 75 meters last evening. And 75 seemed totally dead yesterday morning. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My in-box seemed to have an outer space theme today. First, from Guanajuato, Mexico comes word that the radio club there is planning a second edge-of-space balloon launch. SARSEM ICARUS II is scheduled to go up on 20 November carrying a VHF\/UHF repeater. SARSEM ICARUS I was obviously a big success. Check out the picture &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2010\/11\/17\/balloons-space-stations-aurora\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Balloons!  Space Stations!  Aurora!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5371,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[128,151,364,82,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aurora","category-balloon","category-mexico","category-satellites","category-space-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5370"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5374,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5370\/revisions\/5374"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}