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

[Dave Torrey]

FWIW, I am (was) seeing it apparently direct straight up the lake too:

2012-12-03 15:48:31.271 KD8GBH-1  R K6RPT-12>APBL10,WIDE2-1:!4151.22N/09031.70WO073/192/A=000111V211    CNSP-18    CNSP-Inc.com�700
2012-12-03 15:50:31.529 KD8GBH-1  R K6RPT-12>APBL10,WIDE2-1:!4143.35N/09033.95WO074/182/A=111109V211    CNSP-18    CNSP-Inc.com�700
2012-12-03 15:52:31.458 KD8GBH-1  R K6RPT-12>APBL10,WIDE2-1:!4144.76N/09015.04WO072/198/A=000111V211    CNSP-18    CNSP-Inc.com�700
2012-12-03 15:54:31.546 KD8GBH-1  R K6RPT-12>APBL10,WIDE2-1:!4146.60N/09018.13WO076/184/A=111201V211    CNSP-18    CNSP-Inc.com�700
2012-12-03 15:58:31.559 KD8GBH-1  R K6RPT-12>APBL10,WIDE2-1:!4149.69N/09001.80WO076/191/A=110889V200    CNSP-18    CNSP-Inc.com�700
2012-12-03 16:00:31.511 KD8GBH-1  R K6RPT-12>APBL10,WIDE2-1:!4136.45N/09001.97WO089/154/A=000111V211    CNSP-18    CNSP-Inc.com�700
2012-12-03 16:02:31.544 KD8GBH-1  R K6RPT-12>APBL10,WIDE2-1:!4152.61N/08945.39WO074/187/A=111405V200    CNSP-18    CNSP-Inc.com�700
2012-12-03 16:04:31.453 KD8GBH-1  R K6RPT-12>APBL10,WIDE2-1:!4141.65N/08942.38WO079/189/A=000111V200    CNSP-18    CNSP-Inc.com�700
2012-12-03 16:26:31.526 KD8GBH-1  R K6RPT-12>APBL10,WIDE2-1:!4154.51N/08812.68WO075/179/A=000111V200    CNSP-18    CNSP-Inc.com�700
2012-12-03 16:32:31.545 KD8GBH-1  R K6RPT-12>APBL10,WIDE2-1:!4213.69N/08746.84WO073/170/A=110482V211    CNSP-18    CNSP-Inc.com�700
2012-12-03 16:46:31.573 KD8GBH-1  R K6RPT-12>APBL10,WIDE2-1:!4223.50N/08654.11WO076/178/A=110286V200    CNSP-18    CNSP-Inc.com�700
2012-12-03 16:50:31.588 KD8GBH-1  R K6RPT-12>APBL10,WIDE2-1:!4226.18N/08638.51WO077/186/A=111208V211    CNSP-18    CNSP-Inc.com�700
2012-12-03 16:58:31.525 KD8GBH-1  R K6RPT-12>APBL10,WIDE2-1:!4202.94N/08607.30WO079/180/A=000111V200    CNSP-18    CNSP-Inc.com�700
2012-12-03 17:10:31.502 KD8GBH-1  R K6RPT-12>APBL10,WIDE2-1:!4229.00N/08531.42WO077/184/A=000114V211    CNSP-18    CNSP-Inc.com�700

QTH at 47 07.59N, 88 30.02W.

Dave
KD8GBH

On Mon, 2012-12-03 at 11:58 -0500, Fredric Moses wrote:
> Seeing direct via my Holly digi...
> 
> 
> 2012-12-03 16:56:30.817 HOLLY     R K6RPT-12>APBL10,WIDE2-1:!
> 4230.26N/08614.61WO077/180/A=110781V211    CNSP-18    CNSP-Inc.com?700
> 2012-12-03 16:56:30.818 HOLLY     T K6RPT-12>APBL10,HOLLY*,WIDE2*:!
> 4230.26N/08614.61WO077/180/A=110781V211    CNSP-18    CNSP-Inc.com?700
> 2012-12-03 16:56:31.879 HOLLY     R K6RPT-12>APBL10,CHLSEA*,WIDE2*:!
> 4230.26N/08614.61WO077/180/A=110781V211    CNSP-18    CNSP-Inc.com?700
> 
> 
> Also seeing stations sending ?aprs to the ballon as well.. watching
> all the igates gate to it.....  guess people think it's a 2 way
> station...
> 
> 
> --
> Fredric Moses - W8FSM - WQOG498
> fred at moses.bz
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 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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