[SMCARA] East Coast stations please listen in the morning (Sun) for WB8ELK balloon beacon

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SMD - see below

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard Rucker" rrucker at verizon.net
Sent: Sunday, 18, December, 2005 12:18
Subject: Fwd: East Coast stations please listen in the morning (Sun) for
WB8ELK balloon beacon
From: Iain McFadyen mcfadyenusa at yahoo.com
Date: December 18, 2005 12:20:50 AM EST

They've done it again:

The University of Alabama - Huntsville Balloonatics group have  launched a
balloon which has got stuck. It is hovering at 61,000 feet or thereabouts
over the TN/VA border.

If anyone wishes to listen on 146.565, I am sure that Bill would be very
pleased to get any signal reports directly at wb8elk at aol.com.

Check out this URL (I've been unable to get findu to print the whole   of
the flight track on one page):
http://www.findu.com/cgi-bin/track.cgi?call=wb8elk-11&start=5000


Hopefully, though I think unlikely,... the APRS will burst into life
tomorrow morning too, and will update the map.

Iain   KI4HLV

--- wb8elk at aol.com wrote:

To: balloonatics at yahoogroups.com
CC: balloon_sked at yahoogroups.com, GPSL at yahoogroups.com
From: wb8elk at aol.com

Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2005 22:30:44 EST
Subject: [Balloonatics] East Coast stations please listen in the
morning (Sun) for WB8ELK balloon beacon

My estimated flight path from the last packet signal at 5:48 pm CST   (near
Kingsport, TN) indicates that the payload may fly out to sea east  of
Richmond,VA and at sunrise may be about 200 miles offshore.....at sunrise,
it will be within 200 miles of the following locations:  Philadelphia, NYC,
Boston, Wash DC and may also be heard from Richmond or Virginia Beach, VA.

There is a chance that the balloon beacon on 146.565 MHz FM (WB8ELK   -
audio CW - on for 18 seconds and off for 12 seconds) may come back to
life after the sun warms it up....also, the packet may start to work again
as   well - WB8ELK-11 on 144.39.

The balloon will stay up several hours after sunrise until it hits   peak
altitude so anyone that can monitor Sunday morning (or even   afternoon),
please  email me if you hear anything from it.

_wb8elk at aol.com_ (mailto:wb8elk at aol.com)


73s de Bill WB8ELK