I believe Bob meant that from Europe, they need to point their high gain beams to the west, not to the east.
Gregg Wonderly
On 12/13/2011 9:01 AM, Bob Bruninga wrote:
AMSAT/APRS ops needed in Europe to track trans-atlantic balloon!
Here is the last position copied on APRS with it 500 miles out to sea headed for Europe.. http://aprs.fi/?call=k6rpt-11&mt=roadmap&z=7&timerange=172800&am...
Its on USA freq of 144.39 so will not be heard in Europe except by people specifically tuning for it. Just point your high gain beam east and monitor 144.39 and capture any of the 1200 baud AX.25 packets!
Bob, WB4APR
-----Original Message----- From: aprssig-bounces@tapr.org [mailto:aprssig-bounces@tapr.org] On Behalf Of Steve Noskowicz Sent: Monday, December 12, 2011 11:30 PM To: TAPR APRS Mailing List Subject: Re: [aprssig] K6RPT-11 Has Left The US Mainland - Europe Get Ready to Monitor 144.39
I see that VE3LSR-4 gated it recently from about 500 miles, so hopefully we'll be able to 'see' it about that far off the coast.
What's the radio range at 107k ft...? My calculations show about 407 miles line-of-sight (over the horizon) to a 30' tower and 470 miles diffraction corrected radio range, it looks reasonable.
Anybody know a URL for real-time jet stream maps/plots?
Go baby, Go!