[aprssig] K6RPT-8 APRS Balloon On Ground 10:08 PST

[Stephen H. Smith]

On 3/11/2011 7:33 AM, Stephen H. Smith wrote:
> <http://wa8lmf.net/Livetrack>   for UIview / UI-HeigthTrack display
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K6RPT-8 Balloon is now on the ground about 30 miles east of Meced, CA near the 
entrance to Yosemite National Park.

The flight track was definitely affected by the KPC3+ TNC KISS bug that causes 
received packets to be randomly delayed before being sent to the attached 
PC.     This causes some igates to pass outdated information to the APRS-IS, 
replacing more recent posits with older ones.     During the rapid descent 
after reaching over 127,000 feet, the balloon was "hyper-jumping alternately 
between 100,000 feet and less than 10,000 feet !

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