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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Thanks for compiling this, Remi – the W5SFA balloon has been up 36 days and 12 hours and is currently headed up the Cook Inlet toward Anchorage, Alaska. It’s set an endurance record for time being up, although KF5ZRT/A made 2 ¾ trips around the world. W5SFA has lost some altitude, down to 11,120m (it originally got up over 12,000m) but seems to be holding steady. Hopefully it will last long enough to complete its second trip.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Club members: if you go to <a href="http://qrp-labs.com/track/2873_W5SFA-U4B1.html">http://qrp-labs.com/track/2873_W5SFA-U4B1.html</a> you’ll see the balloon’s track. The color of the track follows the resistor code for each trip around the world. Also, there a link on that page to some launch photos back on March 25. Two other balloons were launched that day, but came down after a few hours of flight. We think that the balloons may have been defective.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Also, the LU7AA site provides a lot more data about the balloon’s progress at <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><a href="http://lu7aa.org/wsprx.asp?other=w5sfa&banda=20m&balloonid=10×lot=4&detail=&launch=20230325141000&SSID=11&tracker=qrplabs&qrpid=217&repito=on&qp=on">http://lu7aa.org/wsprx.asp?other=w5sfa&banda=20m&balloonid=10×lot=4&detail=&launch=20230325141000&SSID=11&tracker=qrplabs&qrpid=217&repito=on&qp=on</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>As the balloon gets closer to home, fire up your rig and WSJT and see if you can spot it.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>73,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Roger N5RWK<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> w5sfa [mailto:w5sfa-bounces@w5sfa.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>F6CNB/N5CNB<br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, May 1, 2023 1:17 AM<br><b>To:</b> 'Mail List for the W5SFA Radio Club'<br><b>Subject:</b> [W5SFA] W5SFA balloon<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Here are the countries which were flying over by W5SFA balloon in April (Source picoballoon list)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>****************************<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>balloon W5SFA uniqueCountries 16<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Afghanistan 6 grids: ['MM04', 'MM14', 'MM24', 'MM43', 'MM13', 'MM23']<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Algeria 2 grids: ['JM24', 'JM34']<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Armenia 1 grids: ['LN20']<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=FR>Canada 11 grids: ['EO70', 'EO80', 'EN89', 'EN99', 'FN09', 'FN19', 'FN18', 'FN28', 'FN37', 'FN47', 'FN46']<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText>China 20 grids: ['NM02', 'NM34', 'NM98', 'NM99', 'OM09', 'ON10', 'ON11', 'MM93', 'NM16', 'NM28', 'ON63', 'ON73', 'ON83', 'ON93', 'PN13', 'PN23', 'PN33', 'PN36', 'PN42', 'PN52']<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Georgia 1 grids: ['LN21']<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>India 1 grids: ['MM83']<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Iran (Islamic Republic of) 5 grids: ['MM05', 'LM87', 'LM97', 'LM96', 'MM06']<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Japan 4 grids: ['PM65', 'PM75', 'PM74', 'PM73']<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Mongolia 7 grids: ['ON22', 'ON44', 'ON45', 'ON55', 'ON56', 'ON66', 'ON53']<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Portugal 3 grids: ['IN51', 'IN50', 'IN60']<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Russian Federation 12 grids: ['PN62', 'RP16', 'QP77', 'QP58', 'QP48', 'QP49', 'QP29', 'QQ20', 'QQ80', 'QQ90', 'RP41', 'RP40']<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Spain 2 grids: ['IM69', 'IM79']<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Tunisia 3 grids: ['JM44', 'JM54', 'JM53']<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Turkey 8 grids: ['KM68', 'KM79', 'KM89', 'KN80', 'KM99', 'LM09', 'LN00', 'LN10']<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>United States of America 10 grids: ['DM47', 'DM48', 'DM58', 'DM59', 'DN50', 'DN60', 'DN61', 'DN72', 'FN56', 'FN55']<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>NoCountry 144 grids: ['PM68', 'PM67', 'PM66', 'PM72', 'PM71', 'PM70', 'PM80', 'PL89', 'QL37', 'QL47', 'QL48', 'QL58', 'QL59', 'QL69', 'QM60', 'QM61', 'QM71', 'QM72', 'QM73', 'QM83', 'QM84', 'QM95', 'QM96', 'RM06', 'RM07', 'AN62', 'AN72', 'AN71', 'AN81', 'AN80', 'AN90', 'AM99', 'BM09', 'BM08', 'BM07', 'BM06', 'BM05', 'BM04', 'BM03', 'BM02', 'AL63', 'AL62', 'AL61', 'AL51', 'AL50', 'AK59', 'AK49', 'AK48', 'AK35', 'AK36', 'AK37', 'AK38', 'AK39', 'AK47', 'AK56', 'AK66', 'AK65', 'AK76', 'AK86', 'AK87', 'AL91', 'AL90', 'BL40', 'BL41', 'BL51', 'BL61', 'BL62', 'BL94', 'BL95', 'CL05', 'CL15', 'CL59', 'CM60', 'CM61', 'CM71', 'CM82', 'GM32', 'GM31', 'GM41', 'GM40', 'GL49', 'GL59', 'HL08', 'HL09', 'HL19', 'HM10', 'HM20', 'HM21', 'HM31', 'HM85', 'HM86', 'HM96', 'HM97', 'IM08', 'IM09', 'IN41', 'JM63', 'JM73', 'RN13', 'RN23', 'RN24', 'RN34', 'RN35', 'RN45', 'RN46', 'RN47', 'RN57', 'RN58', 'RN69', 'RO60', 'RO61', 'RO71', 'RO72', 'RO73', 'RO74', 'PQ89', 'PQ99', 'QQ09', 'QQ19', 'QQ29', 'QQ39', 'QQ49', 'QQ59', 'QQ79', 'RQ53', 'RQ52', 'RQ42', 'RQ41', 'RQ31', 'RQ00', 'RQ10', 'RO49', 'RO48', 'RO33', 'RO32', 'RO31', 'RO30', 'RN39', 'RN64', 'RN74', 'RN73', 'RN83', 'RN93', 'AN03']<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=FR>73 de Remi F6CNB/N5CNB<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>PS : This morning (05/01), the balloon was over the north Pacific ocean (BO38)<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>