[aprssig] APRS Balloon Launch in California 12 Sept 7-8 AM PDT

[Stephen H. Smith]

DALE BLANCHARD wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Stephen H. Smith" <wa8lmf2 at aol.com>
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> Sent: Friday, September 11, 2009 8:54:34 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific
> Subject: [aprssig] APRS Balloon Launch in California 12 Sept 7-8 AM PDT
>
> A balloon launch with APRS tracker aboard is scheduled to lift off 
> around 7-8 AM Pacific time Saturday 12 Sept 09.  
>
> The tracker will be using the call  K6RPT-10.   I will temporarily 
> displace the 30M HF APRS map on my webserver at 
>
>      <http://wa8lmf.dyndns.org:14439>
>
> Does not tell me where it is launched from.
> Dale
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Yeah -- I realized about 1 second after I hit "Send" that I forgot to 
describe the location!

The map I have been provided with that shows the predicted path shows 
the launch site as being in the San Joaquin Valley (California's big 
central valley) about 10 miles west of Madera and about 12 miles south 
of Chowchilla.   Or about 30 miles northwest of Fresno.


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