[aprssig] Transatlantic amateur radio balloon in flight

[Robert Bruninga]

Mark,

I've looked at that site and have trouble locating simple things
like Downlink frequency or any payload description.  I find it a
hard to use site with information hidden and buried and very
slow (probably due to the interest and high traffic load right
now).. 

I'm sure its just me.  But with the slow speed, I still h avent
found the basic info that a ham would be intrested in..
Thanks
Bob
> -----Original Message-----
> From: aprssig-bounces at lists.tapr.org 
> [mailto:aprssig-bounces at lists.tapr.org] On Behalf Of Mark
Conner
> Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 1:27 PM
> To: aprssig at lists.tapr.org
> Subject: [aprssig] Transatlantic amateur radio balloon in
flight
> 
> A weather balloon with amateur radio tracking equipment 
> aboard was launched by the University of Tennessee Amateur 
> Radio Club from Knoxville TN on the evening of March 10th.  
> The balloon is now approaching England and France and is near 
> 50N 20W at 20,000 ft as of 1700 UTC today.  It will hopefully 
> reach the English or French coast tonight.
> 
> Details at http://spiritofknoxville.com.  Telemetry is by 
> CW/RTTY with automated reception and forwarding to the UTARC 
> server (similar to APRS-IS).  Format/protocol is not APRS but 
> certainly in that spirit.
> 
> 73 de Mark N9XTN
> 
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