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

[Scott Miller]

I could hear the simplex repeater here in Santa Maria once it got above 
60,000' or so.  Couldn't hit it, but I didn't try high power.  I 
couldn't hear it at first from my office, but I left my D710 on 
frequency and forgot about it as I was driving around town.  Took me a 
minute to realize what I was hearing.

This is the first time I've heard one of my ADS-SR1's on a balloon, 
though I think a few have flown now.  Maybe I should have made the 
default courtesy tone something more distinctive - the rising triple 
tone was coded by ear, based on how I remember the local 2 meter 
repeater sounding when I was a kid, so it's how a repeater is 'supposed' 
to sound to me and just fades into the background.  I think that local 
repeater might still use the same tone - I'll have to compare it some 
time and see how close I got.

Scott
N1VG


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.
> 
> 
> 
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