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Old December 2nd 07, 03:08 AM posted to rec.radio.shortwave
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Default Spirit of Knoxville transatlantic balloon flight

On Dec 1, 9:50 pm, Billy Burpelson wrote:
Steve wrote:
Anyone else following this?


Yup. Copying on RTTY and CW. 0200Z sigs were around 459; 0230 sigs
dropped to around 339. Also QSB and some precipitation static from the
rain/sleet/snow we are getting (a dark and stormy night!) Copied
Sequence 966 and 979. Looks like they are losing quite a bit of
altitude...down to around 607 meters. Hope they can dump more ballast
before they start scraping the wave tops.


It's still transmitting and audible here as of 0305 utc, though it's
very weak. I fear the end is near.

Steve