[aprssig] K6RPT-12 Now Near Chicago - Hearing It Direct Off RF

[Patrick Wood]

People tend to describe it as being slash-dotted as it is a common
occurrence for websites mentioned there to be killed. :)

p

On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 11:51 AM, Stephen H. Smith <wa8lmf2 at aol.com> wrote:
> On 12/3/2012 11:47 AM, Lee Bengston wrote:
>
> On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 11:38 AM, Stephen H. Smith <wa8lmf2 at aol.com> wrote:
>
> My various maps have been plotting the K6RPT-12 balloon flight from the APRS
> Internet feed.
>
> It is currently near Chicago, and I am now hearing directly on RF from my
> QTH in central Michigan.  (Haslett, MI about 5 miles from East Lansing, MI.
>
> Pretty cool - my Xastir and APRSIS32 instances both show it over Lake
> Michigan with a speed of over 200mph.  The GPS issues are resulting in
> a pretty strange track, however.
>
> Lee - K5DAT
>
>
>
> WOW!   I'm getting something approaching a DOS (denial-of-service) attack on
> my UI-webserver right now.
>
> This server running on a home cable modem with a dynamic IP (i.e. only about
> 400K upstream) was hit 53 times in the first minute and half after I made
> the original post above to four APRS lists  (Yahoo! UIview, Yahoo.uk
> Crosscountry Wireless, Yahoo! CA APRS and this TAPR list).
>
>
>
>
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