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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/14/2012 2:37 PM, Robert Bruninga
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<pre wrap="">Does Anyone know what the APRS tracking ID for the Red Bull Stratos Balloon
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<pre wrap="">Track STRTOS and STRTOS-11
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I was surprised that no one else was inputting objects, so I fired up
my old 486 laptop which has not been used in years and initially
enetered the STRTOS object. Then killed it to change to STRTOS-11
which would be more recognizable as a balloon.
Then made some bad entries with the PC clock being off, then had the
time zone off. Then accidentallly entered two posits with a capital Z
instead of "z" and APRS.FI ignored those. Finally got it all OK.
Remember, APRS was made to track ANYTHING and distribute that info to
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Except that the timing would have been correct on the first try with
a GPS. <br>
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<pre wrap=""> It just takes someone to enter the
object.
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But this manual entry/updating seems to have failed --- It was
never killed or updated. Nearly five days later, the balloon is
STILL showing as being at 127946 feet..... <br>
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