[OZAPRS] High Altitude balloon launch this weekend

[David]

Hi Guys, I just happen to be in Deniliquin about the same time you were
letting the Balloon go and didn't realise it, what a shame, we are
travelling around the area and were in Finley on the way there, bad timing,
only found out about it on a phone call, we did track the one on the
Sunshine Coast Qld a week or so ago

 

Well done

 

73's

David  VK4UN

 

 

From: ozaprs-bounces at aprs.net.au [mailto:ozaprs-bounces at aprs.net.au] On
Behalf Of Andy Nguyen
Sent: 08 February 2014 21:16
To: Australian APRS Users
Subject: Re: [OZAPRS] High Altitude balloon launch this weekend

 

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 <http://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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