[W5SFA] W5SFA Balloon Tracking Project 3-3-23

[Buckeroo Brad]

Interesting map. There are a lot of balloons up there. I'm shocked!

On Fri, Mar 3, 2023 at 7:58 AM Joe Cucuzza <cucuzza18 at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> W5SFA Balloon Tracking Project
>
>
> If you missed the last meeting, this info is based on the handout that Ray
> Meech provided.
>
> This balloon has been the most interesting yet. It is Gary's.
>
> If you use a laptop or desktop (not a smartphone) and a big screen, you
> can zoom in and see the little flags.
>
> Those are the tracking points. Where there are no flags, it was sleeping
> when the sun angle was low.
>
> There are some tracking details if you put the mouse cursor on the
> individual flags. More details are available if you click.
>
> This program loads slowly, but has a lot of detail. if you click on the
> box where the balloon is, the phrase "click for winds" opens another window.
>
> Note the altitude box. The altitude is in meters and you can get close to
> the altitude where the winds are moving the balloon, or go up to 30000
> meters and zoom out to see the jetstreams.
>
> As a side note, we are learning a lot about aeronautics and physics and
> weather!
>
> A good time is being had by all :)
>
>
>
> http://lu7aa.org.ar/WSPR.ASP?banda=20m&other=KF5ZRT/A&balloonid=&timeslot=&repito=&detail=&SSID=00
>
>
> Also the information that the LU7AA site uses comes from the WSPRnet site.
>
> I didn't provide those instructions as I wanted to keep this info page
> short, but that site is:
>
>
> https://www.wsprnet.org/drupal/wsprnet/map
>
>
> 73 Joe KA8WEP
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