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Unknown weather balloon payload from 2017 launch found in NC
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This appears to have been a flight launched late morning on July 5, 2017 according to the timestamps visible in the Facebook photos. I think it was a GoPro camera, photo filenames begin with "G". T-shirt on the guy that launched it is for a shop in Charlottesville VA. Payload was found about a week ago near Statesville NC. 73 de Mark N9XTN
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Hank Riley
_________________________________________________________________________________ This appears to have been a flight launched late morning on July 5, 2017 according to the timestamps visible in the Facebook photos. I think it was a GoPro camera, photo filenames begin with "G". T-shirt on the guy that launched it is for a shop in Charlottesville VA. Payload was found about a week ago near Statesville NC. 73 de Mark N9XTN
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Hank's posted nudged me to go have a look at the archived analysis data (go to ready.arl.noaa.gov and selected "Archived Meteorology" on the left). With the relatively light winds out of the west, I would guess the launch site was along I-40 east of or near Asheville. 73 de Mark N9XTN PRESS HGT(MSL) TEMP DEW PT WND DIR WND SPD HPA M C C DEG M/S E = Estimated Surface Height 973. 405.E 27.8 22.9 233.3 1.5 950. 618. 24.5 22.4 259.1 1.7 925. 852. 22.4 21.1 274.7 2.9 900. 1090. 20.8 19.1 291.3 6.4 875. 1334. 19.4 16.9 295.3 9.5 850. 1583. 17.7 14.5 294.7 11.5 825. 1838. 16.0 11.5 293.4 12.6 800. 2100. 14.6 8.3 291.2 12.8 775. 2368. 13.6 5.1 286.1 12.6 750. 2643. 12.6 2.2 281.6 12.6 725. 2927. 11.0 -0.1 280.1 12.8 700. 3219. 9.1 -1.5 279.1 12.8 650. 3828. 5.0 -4.2 277.4 12.6 600. 4476. 1.1 -8.0 277.3 11.9 550. 5170. -2.8 -12.8 282.2 9.8 500. 5920. -6.5 -17.4 281.2 7.0 450. 6736. -11.6 -23.6 264.0 7.7 400. 7627. -17.4 -28.0 261.5 9.9 350. 8614. -23.6 -33.6 271.5 9.4 300. 9725. -31.0 -44.8 287.4 3.4 250. 10990. -41.7 -53.3 276.5 2.3 200. 12460. -53.0 -61.2 284.5 6.7 150. 14252. -67.1 -72.2 268.5 11.1 100. 16654. -69.8 -79.5 282.2 5.0 50. 20892. -59.2 -81.6 88.1 7.8
On Sun, Jan 12, 2020 at 2:04 PM Hank Riley via Groups.Io <n1ltv=yahoo.com@groups.io> wrote:
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The payload owner has been found - don't know any more details than that at the moment. 73 de Mark N9XTN
On Sun, Jan 12, 2020 at 11:28 AM Mark Conner <mconner1@...> wrote:
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Garrett, Mark
Fantastic!
On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 8:29 PM Mark Conner N9XTN <mconner1@...> wrote:
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Mark Garrett Tri States Public Radio
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