[aprssig] K6RPT Balloon Flight Over - Details On My Website

[Stephen H. Smith]

Stephen H. Smith wrote:
> A complete set of maps from this morning's K6RPT-10 balloon flight is 
> now on my web site at:
>
>      <http://wa8lmf.net/K6RPT_Balloon>
>
> This is just a quickie paste up -- I'll do a better presentation later 
> tonight or tomorrow.
>
> According to my APRS log, the highest altitude achieved (or at least 
> transmitted) was 105,443 feet.
>
> The voice repeater was a total loss here in Pasadena.   A local 
> repeater output is active on this frequency - in fact I wonder if it 
> may have been getting picked up by the balloon once it reached 
> altitude.  It may have timed-out the on-board repeater.   Further, at 
> this QTH, this frequency was constantly getting blasted by an S-9 
> intermod mix of one ham repeater and one public safety repeater.
>
>

Forgot to mention.....

There seemed to be a LOT of interest in this flight.  My UIview 
UI-Webserver has been taking 3-4 hits/minute non-stop for over 9 hours 
now.   There seem to be a lot different parties viewing - the webserver 
log shows these are not just refreshes from the same users over and over.