[amsat-bb] Re: AZORES -- Get Set To Monitor K6RPT-11 APRS Balloon! [Morrocco next!]

[Bob Bruninga]

It made it across the Atlantic!  
First packets being heard in the AZORES and automatically injected into the APRS-IS system:

See plot: http://aprs.fi/?call=k6rpt-11

Now we need hams in Morrocco to tune from their normal APRS channel to 144.39 for continued automatic ARPS internet tracking!

Or send raw packets to me and I will integrate them if I can...

In the “show-last” dialog box, enter 2 days to see its track all the way back to launch in Calif!

Bob, Wb4APR


Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] AZORES -- Get Set To Monitor K6RPT-11 APRS Balloon!

> If no local hams speak, there is an USAF airfield at Lajes 
> (or there it was a few years ago). Maybe you can find 
> someone there with a 2m capable receiver willing to record a long .Wav file...


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De: "Bob Bruninga" <bruninga at usna.edu>
Para: <amsat-bb at amsat.org>
Asunto: [amsat-bb] AZORES -- Get Set To Monitor K6RPT-11 APRS Balloon!
Fecha: mar., dic. 13, 2011 18:51


Subject: Re: [aprssig] ATTN: European Hams -- Get Set To Monitor K6RPT-11
APRS Balloon!

Well, if -11 is still airborne, operational, and headed in the same
direction - and if anybody in the Azores is listening, it ought to be in
range soon.

Its on 144.39  MHz, AX.25 1200 baud packet




> To see a complete picture of K6RPT-11's flight across the United
> States (APRS-wise, at least), check out
>
> http://tinyurl.com/7wuhcb3
>
> Last received packet at 08:42 UTC on 2011-12-13 put it 400 miles off
> the East coast of the United States, moving east at 150 miles per hour
> at 109,000 feet.
>
> Lynn (D) - KJ4ERJ - Author of APRSISCE for Windows Mobile and Win32
>
> On 12/12/2011 10:25 PM, Stephen H. Smith wrote:
>> The K6RPT balloons launched from California late Sunday afternoon
>> local time (about 0100 UTC Monday) have far exceeded expectations.
>> K6RPT-12 landed Monday afternoon near Indianapolis, Indiana.
>>
>> K6RPT-11 survived the day's UV exposure and is still flying as of
>> 22:30 EST (03:30 UTC).  It's currrently over the state of Maryland
>> about 50 miles (80 KM) north of Washington, D.C moving at 145 MPH
>> (230 KM/h).     This balloon is going to be out over the Atlantic
>> within the next hour if all goes well.    There is now a real
>> possibility that it may get into radio range of the UK or continental
>> Europe sometime Tuesday morning UTC.
>>
>> The problem is that it is transmitting on the North American APRS
>> frequency of 144.39 MHz.   Could some Euro receive/igate stations
>> temporarily retune their RX to 144.39 until midday UTC Tuesday?
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>>
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