<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">This balloon didn't have APRS on it - for ~98% of its flight it would have been out of range anyway.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">However, there is another long-distance APRS-equipped flight in progress (unmanned):</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style><a href="http://aprs.fi/#!mt=roadmap&z=11&call=a%2FK6RPT-12&timerange=86400&tail=86400">http://aprs.fi/#!mt=roadmap&z=11&call=a%2FK6RPT-12&timerange=86400&tail=86400</a><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style>This particular balloon transmits daytime only, so between that and needing ground stations listening on 144.39 the data may be hit and miss.  It's been aloft for about 8 days, launched from central California and now near the Caspian Sea.</div><div class="gmail_default" style><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style>73 de Mark N9XTN</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Sun, Feb 1, 2015 at 12:00 PM,  <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:aprssig-request@tapr.org" target="_blank">aprssig-request@tapr.org</a>></span> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2015 01:24:40 GMT<br>
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Subject: [aprssig] Anybody Track this on APRS? Balloon de Japan<br>
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