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--></style></head><body lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Splash! Worked perfectly but we overshot the island! Drats!</span></p><p class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">See the track: <a href="http://aprs.org/balloons.html">http://aprs.org/balloons.html</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">We did not calculate the slow descent of a small water bottle only weighing 80g even without a chute. Only a 30’ streamer. The payload came down no faster than it went up. So even though the cut worked at the Burn Longitude, the descent overshot the island.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Bob, WB4aPR</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"> </span></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"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Robert Bruninga [mailto:<a href="mailto:bruninga@usna.edu">bruninga@usna.edu</a>] <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, April 16, 2013 9:51 PM<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:aprssig@tapr.org">aprssig@tapr.org</a><br><b>Subject:</b> FM CW Balloon launch Annapolis Wed at 11 AM </span></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal">
</p><p class="MsoNormal">A small (2 party balloon) payload sending FM CW on 433.72 +/- MHz may be heard within a few dozen miles of Annapolis Maryland around Noon on Wed. It sends LAT/LON/ALT using a modified CW and a KeyFob 10mw FM transmitter.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">The balloon will only go to 5000’ and wont have a range beyond 50 miles or less. </p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">See details: <a href="http://aprs.org/balloons.html">http://aprs.org/balloons.html</a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">You will see local APRS bulletins from the chase team, but You wont see the position on APRS unless someone has time to take the decoded LAT/LON/ALT in CW and enter them as an object. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Bob, WB4APR</p></div></body></html>