Yes.
There were actually 2 balloons with APRS beacons. The ATV video package did not make these launches.
W9YJ-11, was launched first and supposedly reached ~ 100,000 feet Landed near the town of Bronson, IL I heard stations on the cross-band repeater from Fond DuLac, WI; Toledo, OH when it was around 50,000 feet.
N9QGS-11 was launched second and lost its GPS data stream above 50,000 feet (just East of Royal, IL). It did recover its latitude/longitude and direction about 20 minutes later (near Oakwood, IL and I-74), but never its altitude. Landed south of Catlin, IL
I have MS Power Point slides of the OpenAPRS.net APRS tracks for both balloons.
You can go to OpenAPRS.net, enter the SSID for each balloon and request data over past 2 days. That will show you the actual tracks.
Greg w9gb -------------------------------------------------- From: "George Henry" [email protected] Sent: Sunday, July 19, 2009 1:03 PM To: "Greg Beat" [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: Re: SpaceJam 3 (was Re: 2009 BoD Ballot - question)
I listened for the W9JY-11 balloon on APRS, and for the 446.025 crossband repeater, and heard nothing... did it actually go up yesterday?
George, KA3HSW
----- Original Message ----- From: "Greg Beat" [email protected] To: "Gould Smith" [email protected]; [email protected] Sent: Saturday, July 18, 2009 10:38 PM Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: 2009 BoD Ballot - question
I have been tracking balloons (SpaceJam-3) today .... so I was just starting to read my USPS mail. :-)
Thanks for prompt reply.
Greg w9gb