[aprssig] K6RPT-11 Strato-Floater Balloon Update - Coast-to-Coast and Still Going!

[Steve Noskowicz]

Am I reading it wrong, or is the battery voltage UP?  V1Ex  vs. V166 when it went out of range.  Does it have solar?

-- 
 73, Steve, K9DCI  

 --- On Tue, 12/13/11, Andrew P. <andrewemt at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Are there national areas coming up
> where APRS isn't allowed (i.e., no-reception zones as bad as
> the ocean)?
> 
> Time to consult the world-wide APRS station maps..
> Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Stephen H. Smith" <wa8lmf2 at aol.com>
> Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2011 19:28:51 
> To: <aprssig at tapr.org>
> Subject: Re: [aprssig] K6RPT-11 Strato-Floater Balloon
> Update -
>     Coast-to-Coast and Still Going!
> 
> It's now around sunset at it's current location, so it
> looks as though the 
> balloon's envelope survived the day's UV exposure -- better
> and better chance 
> now it WILL make landfall "over there". .
> 
> On 12/13/2011 2:25 PM, Dave wrote:
> > WOOT!  now seeing it via Azores at 111090 ft 162 MPH
> >
> > Steve Noskowicz<noskosteve at yahoo.com> 
> wrote:
> >
> >> The last packets I see shows a V166 which is below
> the level reported (here) as being where Tx power begins to
> decrease (V1A1), so isn't battery voltace lower than
> 'normal'?
> >>
> >> I also noticed that the altitude in the packets
> (109373) had not changed for many packets, even though the
> posit did, which makes me wonder if something was already
> not working correctly.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> 20111213084231,K6RPT-11>APBL10,VE1YAR,WIDE2*,qAR,VE1GX-1:!3901.87N/06732.80WO101/133/A=109373V166
> CNSP-11
> >>
> >> It sure would be cool if it appeard 'over there'.
> >>
> >> -- 
> >> 73, Steve, K9DCI
> >> --- On Tue, 12/13/11, Stephen H. Smith<wa8lmf2 at aol.com> 
> wrote:
> >>
> >>> The K6RPT APRS-equipped high-altitude
> >>> balloon left the U.S. mainland,  headed out
> over the
> >>> Atlantic about 0330 UTC Tuesday after a
> coast-to-coast
> >>> crossing of the US from the San Jose,
> California launch
> >>> site.
> >>>
> >>> Radio contact was lost about 400 miles off the
> New Jersey
> >>> coast. At that point it was still transmitting
> and reporting
> >>> normal battery voltage, holding altitude
> around 107,000 ft,
> >>> and headed toward the Straights of Gibraltar
> at about 150
> >>> MPH (240 KM/h).
> >>>
> >>> It may yet be heard in Europe Tuesday
> afternoon or evening
> >>> UTC  --IF--  the balloon's latex envelope
> survives
> >>> another day of UV exposure, and the
> transmitter's battery
> >>> lasts that long.    Line of sight radio
> range at
> >>> 100,000 feet is approx 400-450 miles (640-720
> KM).
> >>>
> >>> Live Track  UIview/Precision Mapping 9
> display with
> >>> last-heard location at:
> >>>
> >>> <http://wa8lmf.net/livetrack>
> >>>
> >>
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