It still looks like a couple of hours or so till land fall. Once it gets about as far east as Funchai, we'll need someone along the Morocco and/or Portugal border to listen for it.
Gregg Wonderly
On 12/13/2011 1:51 PM, Douglas Quagliana wrote:
All,
It looks like the balloon is almost all of the way across the Atlantic! Current course will place it closer to Morocco or slightly south of Portugal.
K6RPT-11 APRS Balloon heard by CU2IE / Sao Miguel - still at 109k
2011-12-13 19:30:31 UTC: K6RPT-11>APBL10,CU2ARA-1,WIDE2*,qAR,CU2IE,PORTUGAL:!3558.10N/03322.17WO098/145/A=110161V200 CNSP-11 2011-12-13 19:32:31 UTC: K6RPT-11>APBL10,CU2ARA-1,WIDE2*,qAR,CU2IE,PORTUGAL:!3557.36N/03316.33WO099/144/A=110040V200 CNSP-11 2011-12-13 19:36:31 UTC: K6RPT-11>APBL10,CU2ARA-1,WIDE2*,qAR,CU2IE,PORTUGAL:!3555.86N/03304.76WO098/143/A=109892V200 CNSP-11 2011-12-13 19:42:30 UTC: K6RPT-11>APBL10,WIDE2-1,qAR,CU2IE,PORTUGAL:!3553.73N/03247.24WO098/145/A=109951V200 CNSP-11
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