Yes. There were actually 2 balloons with APRS beacons. The ATV video package did not make these launches.
W9YJ-11, was launched first and supposedly reached ~ 100,000 feet Landed near the town of Bronson, IL I heard stations on the cross-band repeater from Fond DuLac, WI; Toledo, OH when it was around 50,000 feet. N9QGS-11 was launched second and lost its GPS data stream above 50,000 feet (just East of Royal, IL). It did recover its latitude/longitude and direction about 20 minutes later (near Oakwood, IL and I-74), but never its altitude. Landed south of Catlin, IL I have MS Power Point slides of the OpenAPRS.net APRS tracks for both balloons. You can go to OpenAPRS.net, enter the SSID for each balloon and request data over past 2 days. That will show you the actual tracks. Greg w9gb -------------------------------------------------- From: "George Henry" <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, July 19, 2009 1:03 PM To: "Greg Beat" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> Subject: Re: SpaceJam 3 (was Re: 2009 BoD Ballot - question) > I listened for the W9JY-11 balloon on APRS, and for the 446.025 crossband > repeater, and heard nothing... did it actually go up yesterday? > > George, KA3HSW > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Greg Beat" <[email protected]> > To: "Gould Smith" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> > Sent: Saturday, July 18, 2009 10:38 PM > Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: 2009 BoD Ballot - question > > >>I have been tracking balloons (SpaceJam-3) today .... so I was just >>starting >> to read my USPS mail. :-) >> >> Thanks for prompt reply. >> >> Greg >> w9gb > > _______________________________________________ Sent via [email protected]. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb
