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Old December 1st 07, 10:05 PM posted to rec.radio.shortwave
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Default Spirit of Knoxville transatlantic balloon flight

On Dec 1, 4:57 pm, Steve wrote:
On Dec 1, 4:55 pm, Steve wrote:

Anyone else following this?


http://www.spiritofknoxville.com/launch.html


I caught the balloon's position report in CW earlier this afternoon on
10125 lsb.


Transmission schedule is as follows:

VHF APRS: position and every 21 seconds, telemetry every 63 seconds
HF RTTY Daytime: position and telemetry on the following minutes past
the hour: 0 10 20 30 40 50
HF CW Daytime: position on the following minutes past the hour: 5 15
35 45
HF RTTY Nighttime(between 2300 through 0500 in balloon's local time
zone): position and telemetry on the following minutes past the hour:
0 30
HF CW Nighttime (between 2300 through 0500 in balloon's local time
zone): position on the following minutes past the hour: 15 45


Just heard it again here in Brooklyn, NY at 5:05EST.

Steve