Balloon has move into range of the Canaries Islands. There is a low pressure system north of there off of the southern tip of Portugal. Looking at winds aloft for 30,000 feet the balloon should start to swing around the bottom of this low heading northeast over Morocco This will keep it out of the UK so the 200 mile radio footprint should be in range of many APRS stations once we get over land again.

Yes and going dark so no reports for a bit. -----Original Message----- From: mvus-list [mailto:mvus-list-bounces@febo.com] On Behalf Of Mike Suhar via mvus-list Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2018 3:44 PM To: Midwest VHF/UHF Society Mailing List Subject: [mvus-list] Balloon Update Balloon has move into range of the Canaries Islands. There is a low pressure system north of there off of the southern tip of Portugal. Looking at winds aloft for 30,000 feet the balloon should start to swing around the bottom of this low heading northeast over Morocco This will keep it out of the UK so the 200 mile radio footprint should be in range of many APRS stations once we get over land again. _______________________________________________ mvus-list mailing list mvus-list@febo.com https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mvus-list

Mike are you or Joe capturing the raw data? The aprs system dumps data after two days. Jim On Wed, May 23, 2018, 4:17 PM Randy Midkiff via mvus-list < mvus-list@febo.com> wrote: > Yes and going dark so no reports for a bit. > > -----Original Message----- > From: mvus-list [mailto:mvus-list-bounces@febo.com] On Behalf Of Mike > Suhar via mvus-list > Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2018 3:44 PM > To: Midwest VHF/UHF Society Mailing List > Subject: [mvus-list] Balloon Update > > Balloon has move into range of the Canaries Islands. There is a low > pressure system north of there off of the southern tip of Portugal. > Looking at winds aloft for 30,000 feet the balloon should start to swing > around the bottom of this low heading northeast over Morocco This will > keep it out of the UK so the 200 mile radio footprint should be in range of > many APRS stations once we get over land again. > _______________________________________________ > mvus-list mailing list > mvus-list@febo.com > https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mvus-list > > _______________________________________________ > mvus-list mailing list > mvus-list@febo.com > https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mvus-list >