[aprssig] NE Illinois Balloon Tracks

[Steve Noskowicz]

Lynn,

These are REALLY instructive and I'll save them, but not for us.  Send these to the baloon ops.  I tried looking them up on the "great planes Balloon" web site (or whatever it's called) and it's a linking nightmare.

I also looked on QRZ, but I'm not even supposed to be on the net rather trip preps.  I tried to get some of the phone numbers, but all the free web phone numbersites aren't free anymore and those guys didn't have emails on QRZ -don't take my word, I'm busy...
 I can Call Adler and get contact info and talk W/them and ask that they pass the word.   That whole group must be using the same advice...

 
-- 73, Steve, K9DCI
  http://k9dci.home.comcast.net/

balloon 
--- On Thu, 7/23/09, Lynn W. Deffenbaugh (Mr) <ldeffenb at homeside.to> wrote:

> From: Lynn W. Deffenbaugh (Mr) <ldeffenb at homeside.to>
> Subject: [aprssig] NE Illinois Balloon Tracks
> To: "TAPR APRS Mailing List" <aprssig at tapr.org>, "Balloon_Sked" <Balloon_Sked at yahoogroups.com>
> Date: Thursday, July 23, 2009, 2:44 PM
> Three balloons (or at least, three
> APRS trackers) were flying over NE Illinois today. 
> Their APRS infrastructure usage can be viewed at:
> 
> http://ldeffenb.dnsalias.net.nyud.net/Tracking/Balloons/WB9SKY-11*
> 
> http://ldeffenb.dnsalias.net.nyud.net/Tracking/Balloons/KC9POK-11*
> 
> http://ldeffenb.dnsalias.net.nyud.net/Tracking/Balloons/KC9LIG-11*
> 
> (Make sure you look for today's date, these trackers also
> flew on before)
> 
> WB9SKY-11 was heard as far west as Sioux Falls, NW of
> Duluth, North of Milwaukee, NE to Flint and Detroit, East to
> Columbus, and SE to Cincinnati.
> 
> KC9POK-11 was almost as bad and worse to the south sending
> at least on packet well south of Lexington.
> 
> KC9LIG-11 was the most contained (if you can call it that)
> without the extremes to the north and south.  I'm sure
> that was just the luck of the draw.
> 
> Note that these balloons were using very APRS-abusive paths
> causing wide ranging infrastructure activation and
> 144.390Mhz channel hogging.  Please, balloonists,
> consult with some local APRS Amateur Radio mentors before
> launching transmitters at such altitudes!
> 
> If you're going to fly transmitters at balloon altitudes,
> please restrict your trackers to no path, or at most a
> WIDE2-1.  You've got line of sight to everything on the
> ground, so you really don't need any digis (certainly not
> WIDE1 digis) to help deliver your signal.
> 
> Lynn (D) - KJ4ERJ - On behalf of the APRS community
> 
> PS.  The larger the final dash number, the higher the
> resolution.  You'll need to zoom in to see the
> details.  The files ending in -D-nn.png are close-ups
> of the tracked points themselves and do not show the
> infrastructure usage.  Red lines are direct
> communications, green lines are Digi to IGate links. 
> Small red dots are Digis, larger red dots are IGates.
> 
> Feel free to use the images however you would like, but
> copy them and republish them.  Please do not publish
> direct links to my server.
> 
> 
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