<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:large">Interesting map. There are a lot of balloons up there. I'm shocked!<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Mar 3, 2023 at 7:58 AM Joe Cucuzza <<a href="mailto:cucuzza18@gmail.com">cucuzza18@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">
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<p style="line-height:100%;margin-bottom:0in;background:transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%">W5SFA Balloon
Tracking Project</p>
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<p style="line-height:100%;margin-bottom:0in;background:transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%">If you missed the
last meeting, this info is based on the handout that Ray Meech
provided.</p>
<p style="line-height:100%;margin-bottom:0in;background:transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%">This balloon has
been the most interesting yet. It is Gary's.</p>
<p style="line-height:100%;margin-bottom:0in;background:transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%">If you use a laptop
or desktop (not a smartphone) and a big screen, you can zoom in and
see the little flags.</p>
<p style="line-height:100%;margin-bottom:0in;background:transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%">Those are the
tracking points. Where there are no flags, it was sleeping when the
sun angle was low.</p>
<p style="line-height:100%;margin-bottom:0in;background:transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%">There are some
tracking details if you put the mouse cursor on the individual flags.
More details are available if you click.</p>
<p style="line-height:100%;margin-bottom:0in;background:transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%">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.</p>
<p style="line-height:100%;margin-bottom:0in;background:transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%">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.</p>
<p style="line-height:100%;margin-bottom:0in;background:transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%">As a side note, we
are learning a lot about aeronautics and physics and weather!</p>
<p style="line-height:100%;margin-bottom:0in;background:transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%">A good time is being
had by all :)</p>
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<p style="line-height:100%;margin-bottom:0in;background:transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%"><a href="http://lu7aa.org.ar/WSPR.ASP?banda=20m&other=KF5ZRT/A&balloonid=×lot=&repito=&detail=&SSID=00" target="_blank">http://lu7aa.org.ar/WSPR.ASP?banda=20m&other=KF5ZRT/A&balloonid=×lot=&repito=&detail=&SSID=00</a></p>
<p style="line-height:100%;margin-bottom:0in;background:transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%"><br>
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<p style="line-height:100%;margin-bottom:0in;background:transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%">Also the information
that the LU7AA site uses comes from the WSPRnet site.</p>
<p style="line-height:100%;margin-bottom:0in;background:transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%">I didn't provide
those instructions as I wanted to keep this info page short, but that
site is:</p><p style="line-height:100%;margin-bottom:0in;background:transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%"><br></p><p style="line-height:100%;margin-bottom:0in;background:transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%"><a href="https://www.wsprnet.org/drupal/wsprnet/map" target="_blank">https://www.wsprnet.org/drupal/wsprnet/map</a></p><p style="line-height:100%;margin-bottom:0in;background:transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%"><br></p><p style="line-height:100%;margin-bottom:0in;background:transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%">73 Joe KA8WEP</p>
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