I've sent APRS messages to the CT1AKV and EA7CRT IGates in Portugal and Spain respectively, but have so far only received acks but no human response. Hopefully they'll see the messages and possibly switch over to 144.390 to receive the balloon if/when it gets that far.
Lynn (D) - KJ4ERJ - Author of APRSISCE for Windows Mobile and Win32
PS. Here's the IGates in the area. Not a lot to go on. The red circle are 1/2 PHG coverage.
On 12/13/2011 2:51 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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