<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">Yes Ron, the balloon did land in SA near Morgan after spending 3 days circling the state, at the same time as that massive rain front was passing SA this morning.<div><br></div><div>Bob VK5FO and Ray VK5RR gracefully offered to help with the recovery.</div><div><br></div><div>The payload was on the wet grass which killed APRS transmissions, but they did a great job with locating and retrieving the payload, using a combination of DF and software decoding to track the UHF signal.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>Andy</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>On 16 Aug 2014, at 2:07 pm, Ron <<a href="mailto:ronk@ncable.com.au">ronk@ncable.com.au</a>> wrote:</div><div><div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">
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I'd reckon it would be running into some rain about now.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/08/2014 5:54 PM, Andy Nguyen
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Hi all,
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<div>We don’t get to do this very often, but a PICO balloon is
heading towards VK5 from Melbourne.</div>
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<div>10mW TX, APRS on 145.175Mhz, callsign VK3YT-12</div>
<div><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://aprs.fi/#%21mt=roadmap&z=9&call=a%2FVK3YT-12">http://aprs.fi/#!mt=roadmap&z=9&call=a%2FVK3YT-12</a></div>
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<div>Olivia on 434.650Mhz, tracked on <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://spacenear.us/">spacenear.us</a>
as PS.</div>
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<div><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://spacenear.us/tracker/?filter=PS">http://spacenear.us/tracker/?filter=PS</a></div>
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<div>Prediction:</div>
<div><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://ready.arl.noaa.gov/hypubout/182396_trj001.gif">http://ready.arl.noaa.gov/hypubout/182396_trj001.gif</a></div>
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<div>Currently 8337m outside of Ballarat, doing 13kph</div>
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<div>Regards,</div>
<div>Andy VK3YT</div>
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