<div dir="ltr"><div>Fantastic Balloon HD video. An amazingly video Edited down to show the whole mission in a few minutes. Well worth watching! Posted by Kevin Reeve on the aprsisce group:<br><br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxaKxS5POmY" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxaKxS5POmY</a><br><br></div>remainder of his post...<br><br><div>
<div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">They used <a href="http://predict.habhub.org/" target="_blank">http://predict.habhub.org/</a> for path prediction and here is the video:<br><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14px">
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It landed within 3.5 miles of the prediction. We hit 115k feet.</div>
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You can see the APRS data here.</div>
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<div>We had a byonics MT1000 on board and also their Fox beacon. A arduino, sensors, gps, and data logger on board and recorded temperature, pressure, luminosity, UV, 3 axis gyro, compass, and accelerometer. </div>
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<div>A group of hams used aprsis32 in their vehicles to track the balloon and find its landing location so the girls could come in and hike to the landing spot. Girls and parents headed towards a rendezvous point and could view the balloon tracking on their
smart phones using <a href="http://aprs.fi" target="_blank">aprs.fi</a> in the areas that had cell coverage. </div>
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<div>Our last reading was at 8200 a little over 1000k feet from the landing elevation. The chasers could not hear the APRS packet once it was on the ground. They used the last reading they had to get to the general vicinity and then could pick up the beacon,
get a reading and know about where it was. It landed in a hilly area of Wyoming where there are lots of gas and oil mines, and lucky to be about 1/4 mile off of a 4-Wheel drive road. </div>
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<div>You can watch a short video with HD footage onboard here.</div>
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<div>It was a lot of fun for both the girls and the ham chase team. Doing another one in June. </div>
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<div>Kevin N7RXE</div>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span>Friday, April 1, 2016 at 12:40 PM<br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span>"<a href="mailto:aprsisce@yahoogroups.com" target="_blank">aprsisce@yahoogroups.com</a>" <<a href="mailto:aprsisce@yahoogroups.com" target="_blank">aprsisce@yahoogroups.com</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span>[aprsisce] Settings for tracking a Balloon<br>
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<p>This will be my first year using this program for balloon chasing. <span style="word-spacing:normal">I used UI-View previously many years ago for this.</span><span style="word-spacing:normal"> This sunday our club will be assisting a class from Florida
State University to track and locate the balloon. Other than the Footprint setting, is there anything else that I need to configure? </span></p>
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<p><span style="word-spacing:normal">Interesting there is a company that makes a device called Eagle Flight Computer that contains an aprs transmitter, GPS, pressure sensor etc that is marketed for schools. The packet paths are adjusted automatically depending
on the altitude so on the way down (I believe below 3000'), it adds WIDE 1-1 to the mix for additional digi coverage. The only configuration that you have to do for APRS is the callsign.</span></p>
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<p>The call will be K4TLH-11 in case anyone would like to flight follow.</p>
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<p>...DOUG</p>
<p>KD4MOJ</p>
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