[aprssig] NE Illinois Balloon Tracks

[Lynn W. Deffenbaugh (Mr)]

Steve,

I did post them to the balloon group.  Here's three of the replies I got:

 From Joe:
it lasts a few hours,  get a life.

What is the group to do when the tiny 200 milliwatt transmitter is now 
on the ground?  Think many if any digis will hear it to be able to be 
gated to the net?

They need the somewhat long paths to be able to gram ANY station they 
can so they can be heard once it's landed.

This  crap about abusing the network is just as crazy as when someone 
runs a crossband repeater on a somewhat popular frequesncy and someone 
complains because for 2 hours their dead quiet call channel between 
themselves and their buddy 5 miles away isn't quiet and a private call 
channel between them two anymore for 2 hours.

geech!

 From Harry (KC5TRB APRS since 1985)
Not a thing wrong with the path on any of the three balloons!

 From Joe responding to Harry is the best one...
I know,

ever since that one guy in I think florida started to make a stink  with 
these redickulus trackings of  listing what digi dit it hit,

Like a 200mw signal is gonna cause any problem anyway,

these jerks need to get a life

Anyway, such is life and it goes on.  I figured by posting here, anyone 
that can actually get one-on-one with the launchers (or other future 
launchers) can use these to provide a visual of the overkill effect.

Lynn (D) - KJ4ERJ - APRS Infrastructure Visualization

PS.  Yes, I AM that "guy in florida", and I think they responded as they 
did because the KNOW the graphs point out an abuse on their part.  Oh 
well, it's a big world and life is too short to worry.

Steve Noskowicz wrote:
>
> 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:
>
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>> 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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