[OZAPRS] High Altitude balloon launch this weekend

[Andy Nguyen]

Hi Ted it was the payload being driven home in the car and I forgot to turn off the digipeater :).

The balloon reached a max altitude of 36789m and landed safely in a field.

A big thank-you to all that helped tracking the balloon with RTTY and digipeaters!


73,
Andy VK3YT


On 08/02/2014, at 6:43 PM, Richard Murnane <Richard.Murnane at internode.on.net> wrote:

> Hi Ted,
> 
>> Any idea what eventuated with that balloon ?? It seemed to follow the highway at
>> high speed and low altitude until it reached the intersection of those two roads at 
>> around 1522hrs then nothing further. Almost like it landed on a vehicle and fell
>> off at the road junction. Verrrrry mysterious.
> 
> I think what you were looking at was the last hour or so of transmission *after* it had landed and was being driven home. Assuming you’re looking at aprs.fi, If you set the Track tail length (on the right side of the page) to, say, 6 hours, you’ll see a more revealing picture. The balloon left the ground in Deniloquin, headed ENE to a point north of where you say it at 1522, then headed back toward Deniloquin, to a height of 30+km, going east again as it descended. It landed very close to the road (very civilised of it) at about 1500.
> 
> 73 Richard VK2SKY
> 
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