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Author Topic: Radio sonde leaves US air space  (Read 3822 times)

Offline w5cdt

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Radio sonde leaves US air space
« on: June 07, 2013, 0404 UTC »
Apparently Mexico doesn't care if we fly radio sondes into their airspace.
This is the LAT/LON and altitude data I collected from tonight's KDRT launch on 1680 MHz.
The track below is well approximated by the CUSF landing predictor.

http://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=2165748


-Charlie
« Last Edit: June 07, 2013, 0414 UTC by w5cdt »

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Re: Radio sonde leaves US air space
« Reply #1 on: June 07, 2013, 1407 UTC »
I take it you're not going to try and retrieve that one :-)
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