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Subject: RE: Virginia Balloon NOW!
From: Bob Bruninga <bruninga@usna.edu>
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 22:30:32 -0400 (EDT)
X-Message-Number: 36
On Mon, 14 Jul 2003, KENT HUFFORD wrote:
>Its coming down fast. It ain't going to make it out of WV.....
Thats my guess too. Down to 11,000 feet from 50,000 just a few hours
ago.. But Soeone better find it tonight before the batteries die. (unless
it lands in range of a digi, then we can leisurely go pick it up once the
speed and altitude reach 0 ;-)
bob
Bob
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Subject: Re: Balloon over WV heading East!
From: Bob Bruninga <bruninga@usna.edu>
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 22:31:46 -0400 (EDT)
X-Message-Number: 37
Look for LIVE hams in the area. My antennas are down (roof job) so I have
NO live aprs access and cannot even look in on the map. Even my home PC
wont display javamaps!
ARGH, Im blind!
Bob
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Subject: Re: Balloon over WV heading East!
From: Bob Bruninga <bruninga@usna.edu>
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 22:39:00 -0400 (EDT)
X-Message-Number: 38
Please tell us how long the batteries are expected to last?
That will be useful informatino in the recovery effort.
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Subject: RE: Virginia Balloon NOW!
From: "Scott Miller" <scott@home.miller.org>
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 19:40:14 -0700
X-Message-Number: 39
It's at about 5000 feet now and changing direction. If it'd kept on the
course it'd been following most of the afternoon for another hour or so it'd
be right by my parent's place (KK6AD and KB6VAA) in Woodstock, VA, but I'm
afraid I don't know anyone in central WV.
If there aren't any teams on the ground, I say we publish the last known set
of coordinates as a geocache and expand the labor pool a bit. =]
Scott
N1VG
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Subject: Re: Balloon over WV heading East!
From: "Rochte, Robert" <rrochte@gpacademy.org>
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 22:57:18 -0400
X-Message-Number: 40
24 hours is the expected life from ground testing. The radio and TTII will
probably go a lot longer (and thus beacon text would still be transmitted) -
I only ran tests until one component (always the GPS) failed. The radio is
a Radio Shack HTX-200 running on four Energizer E2 lithium/iron AA cells.
The TTII is powered by a lithium 9v battery.
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Subject: RE: Virginia Balloon NOW!
From: "Eric Christensen" <kf4otn@earthlink.net>
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 23:23:43 -0400
X-Message-Number: 41
At 0228Z I received the last packet
(KC8UCH-11>APT202,KC8CON-3,WIDE,WIDE,KF4OWQ-2*,LOCAL,qAR,KF4OWQ:!3831
..94N/08012.77WO338/014/A=004809). What happened to it? I'm not sure
of the height of the terrain but surely it isn't on the ground, yet.
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Subject: Re: Balloon over WV heading East!
From: "Cap Pennell" <cap@cruzio.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 20:26:38 -0700
X-Message-Number: 42
Definitely looks like some rough country, or at least not many roads or
towns. No recent packets have gotten to the internet, so perhaps it's down
below the ridges by now. Good luck to the recoverers!
One can scroll down to the bottom of the list of nearby stations at
http://www.findu.com/cgi-bin/near.cgi?call=KC8UCH-11
and click the link:
"Click here to display all the stations on a map."
Again, good luck!
73, Cap KE6AFE
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Subject: Re: Virginia Balloon NOW!
From: "Jason Rausch" <ke4nyv@msn.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 22:28:31
X-Message-Number: 43
I'm in Roanoke, Va. I'm watching it, but I don't think it will get to me.
Jason KE4NYV
www.ke4nyv.com
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Subject: Re: Balloon over WV heading East!
From: "Douglas Quagliana" <dquagliana@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 03:38:16 +0000
X-Message-Number: 44
On Mon, 14 Jul 2003 Robert Rochte wrote:
>More later. And yes, I am very interested in any offers of
>assistance in recovering it.
At approximately 10:40 PM EST the KC8UCH-11 balloon appears
to be "down" or at least out of range of a digipeater.
Last packet I see received at findu is:
KC8UCH-11>APT202,KC8CON-3,WIDE,WIDE,KF4OWQ-2*,LOCAL,qAR,KF4OWQ:
!3831.94N/08012.77WO338/014/A=004809
Course: 338.0 Speed: 14.0 Altitude: 4809 feet
Just for fun, I got onto Echolink, thinking maybe I could find someone near
the balloon site. I connected to and made a call out on the Roanoke
Virginia repeater (K4NRW on 444.175 Mhz) to see if there was anyone in the
area.
(Okay, okay, the repeater is on Poor Mountain a little east of Roanoke, but
it's close to the last position for the balloon and Echolink seemed like a
good idea for contacting someone in the area.) Alas, no one answered my
call.
Next time there's a balloon launch we should have a live conference in the
APRS conference room (or some other conference room on Echolink) with
everyone who is tracking the balloon.
>but any help will be included in the sure-to-be-famous :-) write-ups!
I really want to read the write-up on this one! Please include the APRS
list in your emails.
Douglas D. Quagliana KA2UPW
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Subject: balloon snapshot
From: vic <ke4lkq@shentel.net>
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 23:45:48 -0400
X-Message-Number: 45
you can see the last transmitted position received by my station at
www.user.shentel.net/ke4lkq/ and follow the xastir link. comments welcome.
Its a big file so may take a minute or two to load. Any body wanting to
search for it may grab the picture. I believe there are enough details to
get started
regards, Victor ke4lkq
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Subject: Re: Balloon over WV heading East! - for Bob B.
From: KC7ZRU - Tate <kc7zru@arrl.net>
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 21:47:38 -0600
X-Message-Number: 46
I've gathered what I recieved here as well as a snapshot with the last
recieved posit report from the Balloon.
"Uncle Bob" being 'blind' currently - thought this may be of help.
Feel free to do what you may with this
73
--
"The Dungeon" online at http://go.to/kc7zru
Casper, WY | CARC Repeater
DN62tt | 146.940-
http://www.trib.com/~carc
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Subject: Re: Balloon over WV heading East! - for Bob B.
From: KC7ZRU - Tate <kc7zru@arrl.net>
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 21:49:22 -0600
X-Message-Number: 47
DOH!!
Guess it would help if I included the URL, eh?
http://www.kc7zru.net/kc8uch.html
73
--
"The Dungeon" online at http://go.to/kc7zru
Casper, WY | CARC Repeater
DN62tt | 146.940-
http://www.trib.com/~carc
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