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<font size=3>Camp David isn't anywhere near by, is it?
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Tony<br><br>
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At 11:06 PM 2013-08-10, you wrote:<br>
>You lucky guy!!! Your coming down within 25 miles of the
nearest<br>
>anything, and luckily it is a home IGate! At least you'll be
able to<br>
>hear down to a thousand feet or so. Its 1 Am and it will be on
the<br>
>ground at this rate at 0119 EDT. Good luck!<br>
><br>
>BOb, WB4APR<br>
><br>
>Its falling within direct range of an IGate!!!<br>
><br>
>On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 11:14 PM, John Gorkos
<jgorkos@gmail.com> wrote:<br>
>> Our local club did a HAB launch today that went horribly
wrong. Check out<br>
>> the track of AB0OO-11 to see what I mean. After 12 hours
aloft, we are<br>
>> still getting good positional data from the balloon, but we have
no control<br>
>> over it.<br>
>> We ran out of fill gas and only had about 3.5 pounds of lift on
a 3 pound<br>
>> payload. Instead of just aborting, we launched
anyway. The balloon<br>
>> averaged about 100 feet per minute of lift, and after 7 hours it
had only<br>
>> made it to 60k feet. For the last 4 hours, it's been
gradually drifting in<br>
>> circles, getting lower and lower. We're going to lose it
somewhere over<br>
>> south western North Carolina, and we'll probably never see it
again.<br>
>> This balloon was flying the new Byonics MT-400 tracker, which is
still going<br>
>> strong with a Sparkfun >60k GPS (it's been flight tested by
us to 93k) on 6<br>
>> Energizer Lithium Ultra batteries.. Unfortunately, I
didn't include the<br>
>> additional battery pack, relay, and wiring needed for a nichrome
cutdown, so<br>
>> instead of being able to abort the flight at the time of our
choosing, it<br>
>> continues to drift aimlessly over the Carolina's, along with 2
HD video<br>
>> cameras.<br>
>><br>
>> If anyone happens across what will probably be a still-inflated
balloon, I'd<br>
>> really like the memory cards out of the cameras…<br>
>><br>
>> John Gorkos<br>
>> AB0OO<br>
>><br>
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