APRS Balloon headed for UK

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APRS Balloon headed for UK

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Credit: Bruce VE5BNC

It survived the first night and has made it all the way from Saskatoon to somewhere off the east coast of Newfoundland. If I'm very lucky, it will make it across the pond in the next 48 hours [late Wednesday or Thursday].

It should switch to 144.800 MHz FM in the mid-Atlantic, but if there are any European stations that can listen on 144.390 MHz FM, that would be appreciated.

During the day, it beacons once per minute at 13 seconds after the minute and at night, it's on a roughly 15 minute cycle.

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No further updates on this, looks like the balloon has stopped transmitting updates over Prince Edward Island either due to being destroyed or some other technical failure.
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The Russians ? :D
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This balloon was making some good time, Did you ever figure out what happened to the balloon?

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Hi Ed, last known location was over Nova Scotia, radio silence since the 3rd of October.
If I spot any updates I shall reply on this thread.

Cheers

Rob.
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