As it has done in past years, the Parachute Mobile group — “in the air, on the air” — has scheduled jumps for October 17 in association with Pacificon, the ARRL Pacific Division Convention, in San Ramon, California.
“We do this every year, giving visiting hams a chance for a unique parachute mobile QSO,” said Mark Meltzer, AF6IM, who will be Jumper 1. This will be Mission 22.
As Jumper 1, Meltzer will be operating on 10 meters (28.425 MHz USB) and 2 meters (146.43 MHz FM simplex), hoping for a DX contact.
Jumper 2, Michael Greg, KF6WRW, will be on 146.43 MHz FM simplex as well as 5 GHz ATV, which will be streamed live.
Jumper 3, Rob Fenn, KC6TYD, will be on 146.43 MHz FM simplex.
Jumper 4, Capt Jim Wilson, RCAF, will be shooting in-flight video and photos. He is studying for his Canadian ham license and will be making radio jumps soon.
Jumpers will also carry APRS gear that will transmit GPS data, heart rate, and blood oxygen level.
The October 17 jumps over Byron, California, will take place from a Beech King Air 90 twin turboprop jumpship, with jumpers exiting at about 14,000 feet. Meltzer, who is 66, is enjoying his 47th year of skydiving. — Thanks to Mark Meltzer, AF6IM
Source:ARRL
Recent Posts
Defence Minister is radio ham
Sweden’s Minister for Defence is radio amateur, Carl Anders Peter Hultqvist SM4HCF, he was appointed on October 3, 2014 On Friday, December 11,... Read more
5 January 2019 Kids Day
The 5th of January it’s again Kids Day. This event is especially created to promote Amateur Radio to youth. This is a moment where you can share your... Read more
Major Rove by Satellite Ops Could Make Rare Grids Squares Available
2018 ARRL International Grid Chase (IGC) participants take note: satellite operators Doug Tabor, N6UA, and Ken Alexander, VE3HLS, will travel to the J... Read more
Icom IC-9100 – QST Review
Icom IC-9100 Mark J. Wilson, K1RO, k1ro@arrl.org Reviewed by Rick Lindquist, WW3DE National Contest Journal Managing Editor ww3de@arrl.org The only re... Read more
CQ WW RTTY DX Contest 2015 – Rules and Tip´s
CQ WW RTTY Free Log Software – N1MM FREE RTTY SOFTWARE MMTTY – RTTY with Windows and Soundcard WinXP – Vista... Read more
Decoding Ham Datamodes From WebSDR
WebSDR Alex Csete OZ9AEC is showing you how you can listen to and decode digital ham radio traffic without having any receiver or antenna. All you nee... Read more
Why Ham Radio is the Go To Tool for Emergency Communication for Preppers
Why Ham Radio is the Go To Tool for Emergency Communication for Preppers – Read Full Article: Read more
Police Frequency Jammed
Post by Ak-Sar-Ben Amateur Radio Club. Read more
The K7RA Solar Update
Solar activity is still soft, although sunspot numbers and solar flux both increased this week. Average daily sunspot numbers for August 6-12 increase... Read more
Pima Co. plans ham radio network as communications backup
Office of Emergency Management for Pima County (Source: Pima County) Tucson News Now TUCSON, AZ (Tucson News Now) – Pima County officials are wo... Read more
Ominous Region that Launched Super Storms Returns: Solar Storm Forecast 08-04-2017
“The huge sunspot that gave us a moderate solar storm at Earth two weeks ago and launched a super solar storm on the Sun’s backside has re... Read more
Ham radio and Linux – Stop your radio from automatically becoming the default audio device.
A simple change to make, it saves me time manually setting my default back to the computer every time I power up or plug in the radio. Read more
Wind-Up Radio Inventor Trevor Baylis Dead at 80
Inventor and Honorary Radio Society of Great Britain (RSGB) Member, Trevor Baylis of London, died March 5 after a long illness. His wind-up radio made... Read more
The Siru Innovatios SDR20 adds new features
New features * Smooth zoom in FFT/waterfall view * Adaptive menu * Frequency memory with snapshot pictures of signals * Sliding effect between views *... Read more
![DP6T Multi-Multi Contesting [ Video ]](https://qrznow.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/WAG2014_DP6T_a-265x168.jpg)
Warning: file_get_contents(https://plusone.google.com/_/+1/fastbutton?url=https%3A%2F%2Fqrznow.com%2Fparachute-mobile-group-to-hold-jump-in-conjunction-with-pacificon%2F): failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.0 404 Not Found in /home/qrznow/public_html/wp-content/themes/goodnews5/framework/functions/posts_share.php on line 151
