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

[Louis Courville]

Hi Lynn,

Are each of those stations on the map also Igates?

Thanks,

Louis Courville

On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 5:28 AM, Lynn W. Deffenbaugh (Mr) <
ldeffenb at homeside.to> wrote:

> It's been doing that for a good percentage of it's flight if you don't
> observe it with something that attempts to filter out these delayed
> packets.  aprs.fi has a good algorithm and so does APRSISCE/32.  The
> algorithms work better with packets containing timestamps, though.
>
>
> Lynn (D) - KJ4ERJ - Author of APRSISCE for Windows Mobile and Win32
>
> PS.  That'd be the pink squares along the track of the balloons in
> http://tinyurl.com/6lq22pu  You'll see it's nearly every track point had
> at least one delayed duplicate.
>
>
> On 12/12/2011 10:59 PM, Stephen H. Smith wrote:
>
>> Oh No!   It's now within range of at least one buggy TNC/igate that is
>> delaying forwarding packets to the APRS-IS.   I'm now seeing 20-mile
>> fore-and-aft cha-cha-cha "hyperjumps" as long-delayed old packets replace
>> newer ones.
>>
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>>
>>
>> On 12/12/2011 10:55 PM, Andrew P. wrote:
>>
>>> I'm watching -11 from the west suburbs of Philadelphia, PA.
>>>
>>> And -12 is _still_ transmitting, wherever it's landed.
>>>
>>> ------Original Message------
>>> From: Lee Bengston
>>> To: aprssig at tapr.org
>>> Sent: Dec 12, 2011 10:37 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [aprssig] ATTN: European Hams -- Get Set To Monitor
>>> K6RPT-11    APRS Balloon!
>>>
>>>
>>> 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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