Dear Friends, I'm posting this mail on behalf of Mohan VU2MYH and his colleagues.

This morning at 12:30 UT a balloon carrying APRS payload was launched from Hosakote near Bangalore South India. The call sign is VU2MYH and the balloon was tracked successfully since launch till now. But the balloon has unexpectedly into a very long flight and it is currently crossed the Indian coast line on the western side near udupi, a place near to Mangalore and it is still in flight. Though, I'm able to receive the signals till now, but it is not stable, probably due to low voltage for my MixW to decode the telemetry.

The last recorded data in my Club station [VU2URC]ISRO Satellite Centre, Bangalore at 11:41:19 UT indicates the position 13.41.19 N/ 74.18.79 E at an altitude of 64763 feet [19744 meters].

It is very evident that we may not be able to recover the payload, but would like to request our friends if any sailing over Arabian Sea and stations located around east coast of Africa and west of India to listen on to APRS signals on 145.765 Mhz.

If signals were heard, the following persons who are mobile since morning and tracking the balloon may kindly be contacted on:

Sanjay: +91 888 569 8940 Prasad: +91 974 250 9781

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Mani [VU2WMY/KJ6LRS]

Secretary & Station-In-Charge Upagrah Amateur Radio Club VU2URC ISRO Satellite Centre HAL Airport Road, Bangalore-560 017. Phone:(O)91-80-25082054/2598/2192 Mobile: 91-80-98803 41456 E-mail ID: [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

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