QSL Cards update

The QSL cards are almost done. Thank you for your patients.

Mission 31 completed!

Thank you to all those that participated in Mission 31. It will be at least a couple of weeks as I go through all the logs, emails, and audio recordings and come up with a final QSO log. We try our best to record and write the Q’s as they come in but we do miss a few hear and there. Please, if you made a contact with a jumper please email me at KC6TYD@gmail.com. Please state which jumper it was, Rob or Mark, and the time. As soon as consolidate all the pictures that were taken I’ll decide on what will got on the QSL card and get those out to you. QSL cards will be mailed to addresses as listed in QRZ.com. I’ll annouonce here and on Facebook when the QSL cards are mailed out. Come back soon to view some photos of the mission.

Mission 32 is Schedule for August 25.

-Rob

Mission 31 event timeline

9:35 Running a little late. Drop Zone ops all set up, we are competing system checks. Stand by for updates on first Jump.

10:09 Prepping Rob KC6TYD for his first jump

10:14 Load 2 Rob Jump @10:35

10:29 Rob  Heading to the plane

10:35 Rob Take off

10:41 Weather update Speed 3.6 Gust 3.6

10:48 APRS 12,500

Please send a contact confirmation to Rob KC6TYD@gmail.com

10:51 Jumper Rob away

10:55 Taking contacts

10:56 7500ft Rob

11:04 approaching drop zone to land

11:06 Rob Landed safe & sound

11:10 Next jump HF Mark AF6IM Jumper #1

11:59 Next jump Mark HF @ 12:20 ish

1:02 Mark AF6IM heading to the plane

1:08 Plane take off

1:12 500ft

1:18 6638ft

1:30 Jumpers away

l:42 Mark landed safe & Sound

1:50 Reminder if you make a contact with the jumpers please email kc6tyd@gmail.com to confirm your QSO to get your awesome one of kind QSL card

2:09 Next  jump KC6TYD Rob We will keep you posted what time. Winds have picked up 19.0 Gust 22.0

2:28 Take off 20 mins

2:44 Rob at plane

2:50 Take off

3:00 6,000 ft

3:05 No APRS recorded at this time

3:09 12, 345

3:12 Jumpers away

3:15 If you make a contact with Rob send him a email kc6tyd@gmail.com to confirm your QSO

3:27 Rob landed on his feet winds at 20 and gusts at 20 Safe & Sound

Thank you everybody for a great day!!

Catch you all at our next Mission 32 in Aug-Christine KK6PNV

Mission 31 Update

QST, QST, QST…

Parachute Mobile Mission 31 is scheduled for June 16, 2018.

This will be an opportunity to for you to make a unique contact with a skydiver while he descends under his parachute.

Frequencies (Corrected HF Rx frequency typo)

FM: 146.430 MHz simplex

HF: 14.250 MHz up 10 KC (Tx 14.250, Rx 14.260)

APRS

Search AF6IM or KC6TYD depending on jumper

Live streaming video: (Updated 6-8-18)

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/mfwright

EchoLink: (Updated 6-15-18)

NE6RD-L

This will be our first time using EchoLink.  Please be patient when attempting to make a QSO as we are aware of latency issues.  We have tried our best to keep this at a minimum.  The node can only handle 10 connections at a time.  Once your contact is made please disconnect to make room for others to join in.  Please wait until the jumper calls for EcoLink contacts.  Since altitude will not be an issue for E/L users the jumper will take simplex contacts first.

Location

Bay Area Skydiving

Byron Airport, Byron, CA

We hope to have our first jump as close to 10 a.m.  Listen on 146.430 MHz for Parachute Control.  Updates will be made throughout the day to keep you advised of jump status.  Too far away?  Updates will be made on the W6CX repeater (Diablo) on 147.060+ 100.  We will also have a running timeline of updates on our website at parachutemobile.org.  We hope to complete 4 jumps for the day.

If you make a contact please email us at KC6TYD@gmail.com.  We keep both a written and audio log, however, at time calls are missed.

Please note that we have no control over the aircraft or weather and the event is subject to delays or cancellation.  Please visit our website for updates.

Hope to hear you in the air.