[aprssig] One of the K6RPT Balloons Has Made It Over The Rockies!

[Eric Hansen]

Holy cow! That's awesome amateur experimentation! Congrats!

On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 10:28 AM, Andrew P. <andrewemt at hotmail.com> wrote:
> It was cool, watching the -11 and -12 tracks from my shack. What was happening to the data on -13 or -14 (don't remember which) that was zigzagging north-south by hundreds of miles? Must have been some interesting data garble before it came down. Are they sending any other telemetry?
>
> Wonder if they'll make it far enough for direct RF in my neighborhood?
>
> Andrew, KA2DDO
> ------Original Message------
> From: Stephen H. Smith
> To: aprssig at tapr.org
> Sent: Dec 12, 2011 10:23 AM
> Subject: [aprssig] One of the K6RPT Balloons Has Made It Over The Rockies!
>
>
> Two of the balloons from the K6RPT 4-balloon mega-launch yesterday afternoon in
> San Jose, CA are still aloft as of 10:00 AM Monday EST (1500 UTC).
>
> K6RPT-12 is now over central Kansas headed toward Kansas Ciy at about 175 MPH
> (about 280 KM/H).    Last night about 04:00 AM Monday , K6RPT stopped
> transmitting when it was just north of the Grand Canyon on the Utah-Arizona
> state line.   It came back to life this morning, just as it was crossing the
> Colorado/Kansas state line.
>
> K6RPT-11 is lagging -12 by about 450 miles (about 700 KM), but has been
> transmitting continuously all night.  It  is currently over Durango in extreme
> south-west Colorado.
>
> Take a look at the raised-relief 3D-like topo effect currrently on the
> UIview/Precision Mapping tracker for both balloons at
>
> . <http://wa8lmf.net/LiveTrack>
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