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

[Eric Hansen]

Kantronics reports all KPC3+ "working as intended".

Congratulations on a successful flight!

On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 1:15 PM, Andrew Rich <vk4tec at tech-software.net>wrote:

> watching from australia - its 4 am
>
> what is the chase car ?
>
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> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stephen H. Smith" <wa8lmf2 at aol.com>
> To: "TAPR APRS Mailing List" <aprssig at tapr.org>
> Sent: Saturday, March 12, 2011 4:09 AM
> Subject: Re: [aprssig] K6RPT-8 APRS Balloon On Ground 10:08 PST
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>  On 3/11/2011 7:33 AM, Stephen H. Smith wrote:
>>
>>> <http://wa8lmf.net/Livetrack>   for UIview / UI-HeigthTrack display
>>>
>>>
>>> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
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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     This causes some igates to pass outdated information to the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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>> =====  Vista & Win7 Install Issues for UI-View and Precision Mapping =====
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>> "APRS 101"  Explanation of APRS Path Selection & Digipeating
>>  http://wa8lmf.net/DigiPaths
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