[South Florida DX Association] Spirit of Knoxville to fly again

K2EWB k2ewb at comcast.net
Sun Mar 9 17:01:50 EST 2008


Hi Pete,

The local time shown in the second paragraph is one hour early. That's 
assuming they meant to designate "EDT."
Perhaps it was there intention to list the time for "CDT." Either way it 
should read "11:00PM EDT"  in Florida.

73,

Leon



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Pete Rimmel - Marine Chemist - N8PR" <n8pr at bellsouth.net>
To: "SFDXA" <SFDXA at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2008 3:06 PM
Subject: [South Florida DX Association] Spirit of Knoxville to fly again


>
> Hello,
>      This message is sent to you because you have signed up for
> email notices from the Spirit of Knoxville trans-atlantic balloon
> team.  Spirit of Knoxville IV (SNOX IV) launch date has been set.
> This flight is designed to stay aloft for more than 24 hours,
> inserted into the current jet stream at normal flight altitudes of
> 30,000 to 40,000 ft.   This will take the balloon into Europe over
> the UK and France if all goes well around 40 hours into the flight.
>
> Launch Time:  0300 UTC March 11  (10 PM EDT March 10)
> Track the mission live at: http://www.spiritofknoxville.com  (the
> Live status page will only become active at launch)
> Keep an eye on the latest progress from the launch team on the front
> page of spiritofknoxville.com or by using twitter to follow twitter
> user "spiritofknox".
>
>
> Radio listeners: Flight radio details will be available on the DTRC
> status page which opens when you run the current version of DTRC.
> Download DTRC from http://dtrc.utarc.org
>
> Thanks,
> Spirit of Knoxville Crew
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