[aprssig] ATTN: European Hams -- Get Set To Monitor K6RPT-11 APRS Balloon!

[Lee Bengston]

Forgot to mention that the instance in the scrolling list at that time
was a direct RF receive.  Just saw it a few minutes ago via Internet
gated by KB1AEV-4.

Lee - K5DAT


On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 10:37 PM, Lee Bengston <lee.bengston at gmail.com> wrote:
> What timing.  I just saw this message and checked APRSIS32, which was
> already running on this computer, and there was K6RPT-11 in the
> scrolling station list.  I'm in Leesburg, VA.
>
> Lee - K5DAT
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 10:25 PM, Stephen H. Smith <wa8lmf2 at aol.com> wrote:
>> The K6RPT balloons launched from California late Sunday afternoon local time
>> (about 0100 UTC Monday) have far exceeded expectations.  K6RPT-12 landed
>> Monday afternoon near Indianapolis, Indiana.
>>
>> K6RPT-11 survived the day's UV exposure and is still flying as of 22:30 EST
>> (03:30 UTC).  It's currrently over the state of Maryland about 50 miles (80
>> KM) north of Washington, D.C moving at 145 MPH (230 KM/h).     This balloon
>> is going to be out over the Atlantic within the next hour if all goes well.
>>    There is now a real possibility that it may get into radio range of the
>> UK or continental Europe sometime Tuesday morning UTC.
>>
>> The problem is that it is transmitting on the North American APRS frequency
>> of 144.39 MHz.   Could some Euro receive/igate stations temporarily retune
>> their RX to 144.39 until midday UTC Tuesday?
>>
>>
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>>
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