<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>Bob,</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">You could have came to me and I would have found a way to get an RTrak-HAB to you for this flight. Not only would it be a proven HAB platform flying, but it DOES work above the 18K limit and will remained lock for the flight. I just don't understand why these cobbled together payloads are used for such important flights.</div><div></div><div> </div><div>Jason Rausch - Amateur Radio Callsign: KE4NYV<br>RPC Electronics,
LLC<br>www.rpc-electronics.com<br></div> <div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <hr size="1"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Robert Bruninga <bruninga@usna.edu><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> aprssig@tapr.org <br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> wa3nan@lists.nasa.gov; aprs@yahoogroups.com <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, July 17, 2013 6:56 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [aprssig] Balloon Launch Thursday maybe 10 AM<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><br>
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--></style><div><div class="yiv1868770952WordSection1"><div class="yiv1868770952MsoNormal">Launch from Lancaster PA, mild winds.</div><div class="yiv1868770952MsoNormal"> </div><div class="yiv1868770952MsoNormal">Should go up to 100k feet and then come down not far from launch. Be heard across 15 states.</div>
<div class="yiv1868770952MsoNormal"> </div><div class="yiv1868770952MsoNormal">Though it is a non high altitude GPS and FIX will be stuck above 18k feet until it comes back down.</div><div class="yiv1868770952MsoNormal"> </div><div class="yiv1868770952MsoNormal">Callsign is W3ADO-11 and it will be on 144.39</div>
<div class="yiv1868770952MsoNormal"> </div><div class="yiv1868770952MsoNormal">If anyone KNOWS that a Tinytrack3 and GPS2 from Byonics will *<b>not</b>* re-aquire when it comes back below 18k feet please let us know NOW.</div><div class="yiv1868770952MsoNormal"> </div><div class="yiv1868770952MsoNormal">
Thanks The rest of the payload costs $10,000 and we don’t want to lose it. It is a different schools project that noone else can access, so I wont bother with details.</div><div class="yiv1868770952MsoNormal"> </div><div class="yiv1868770952MsoNormal">Bob</div>
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