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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Stephen et al,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>I believe that should read “</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>0200-0300 UTC FOUR December”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>73,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Mike<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>WM4B</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><a name="_MailEndCompose"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></a></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'> aprssig-bounces@tapr.org [mailto:aprssig-bounces@tapr.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Stephen H. Smith<br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, December 03, 2012 5:36 PM<br><b>To:</b> TAPR APRS Mailing List<br><b>Subject:</b> [aprssig] ATTN: EUROPE & UK K6RPT-12 Balloon Has Left North America, Headed Your Way!<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The K6RPT-12 long-duration high-altitude balloon left the North American mainland, after crossing directly over Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada at approximately 17:35 US EDT (2230 UTC 2 December). <br><br>It's heading out almost straight east across the Atlantic ocean at about 210 MPH (340 KM/h) at aproximately 110,000 feet (33,500 meters). At it's present rate of travel, we will have about another 90 minutes to two hours before it goes out of range of igates in North America. <br><br>Tune your igate receivers to the North American APRS channel of 144.39 MHz by around 0200-0300 UTC 3 December to try to igate it.<br><br>The flight is having problems with the GPS receiver constantly unlocking and relocking, yielding a rather odd saw-tooth-like track. The true track is easily discernible, if you ignore or filter out the beacons with an elevation near sea level. <br><br><br><a href="http://www.californianearspaceproject.com/"><http://www.californianearspaceproject.com/></a><br><br><a href="http://wa8lmf.net/livetrack"><http://wa8lmf.net/livetrack></a><br><br></span><o:p></o:p></p><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><hr size=2 width="100%" align=center></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><br>--<br><br>Stephen H. Smith wa8lmf (at) aol.com <br>Skype: WA8LMF<br>Home Page: <a href="http://wa8lmf.net">http://wa8lmf.net</a><br><br>High Performance Sound Systems for Soundcard Apps<br> <a href="http://wa8lmf.net/ham/imic.htm">http://wa8lmf.net/ham/imic.htm</a><br> <a href="http://wa8lmf.net/ham/uca202.htm">http://wa8lmf.net/ham/uca202.htm</a><br> <br>Vista & Win7 Install Issues for UI-View and Precision Mapping<br> <a href="http://wa8lmf.net/aprs/UIview_Notes.htm#VistaWin7">http://wa8lmf.net/aprs/UIview_Notes.htm#VistaWin7</a><br><br>"APRS 101" Explanation of APRS Path Selection & Digipeating <br> <a href="http://wa8lmf.net/DigiPaths">http://wa8lmf.net/DigiPaths</a> <br><br><br><br></span><o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>