FW: [aprssig] K6RPT-11 Has Left The US Mainland - Europe Get Ready to Monitor 144.39
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: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] 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!
Also Keep an ear out on the same frequency for NG0X-2
It is a similar flight, and it actually may arrive across the pond first it had a several hundred mile head start.
Joe WB9SBD
The Original Rolling Ball Clock Idle Tyme Idle-Tyme.com http://www.idle-tyme.com
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: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] 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!
Yes, but it was also not transmitting for 17.5 hours now, or at least whatever component of that time that it was still within range of the United States. It may or may not get there and it may or may not wake up enough to transmit.
But it is also on 144.390, so if you're listening for one, you're listening for both.
Lynn (D) - KJ4ERJ
On 12/13/2011 10:17 AM, Joe wrote:
Also Keep an ear out on the same frequency for NG0X-2
It is a similar flight, and it actually may arrive across the pond first it had a several hundred mile head start.
Joe WB9SBD
The Original Rolling Ball Clock Idle Tyme Idle-Tyme.com http://www.idle-tyme.com
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: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] 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!
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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: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] 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!
On Tue, 13 Dec 2011 09:28:38 -0600 Gregg Wonderly [email protected] wrote:
I believe Bob meant that from Europe, they need to point their high gain beams to the west, not to the east.
Gregg Wonderly
I don't know what it's like down south but if it's anything like the weather at 56°N then you won't be pointing them west for very long!
On the upside my 2m vertical has a bit of an inclination tilting its radiation pattern up to the south, ideal for when the ISS goes back onto 145.825 ;-)
ISS was on 145.825 last night... I gated quite a few stations on the 01:10Z pass over the U.S.
George, KA3HSW
----- Original Message ----
From: Gordon JC Pearce [email protected] To: [email protected] Sent: Tue, December 13, 2011 10:43:08 AM Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: FW: [aprssig] K6RPT-11 Has Left The US Mainland - Europe Get Ready to Monitor 144.39
On Tue, 13 Dec 2011 09:28:38 -0600 Gregg Wonderly [email protected] wrote:
I believe Bob meant that from Europe, they need to point their high gain
beams
to the west, not to the east.
Gregg Wonderly
I don't know what it's like down south but if it's anything like the weather at 56°N then you won't be pointing them west for very long!
On the upside my 2m vertical has a bit of an inclination tilting its radiation pattern up to the south, ideal for when the ISS goes back onto 145.825 ;-)
-- Gordon JC Pearce MM0YEQ [email protected]
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