<div dir="ltr"><h1 style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:16pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">APRS balloon heading for British Isles and Europe</h1><p style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px">On Sunday morning, September 30, <strong style="box-sizing:border-box">Bruce VE5BNC</strong> launched his first amateur radio floater balloon, <strong style="box-sizing:border-box">VA5BNC</strong>-15, from Saskatoon 52.1N, 106.6W, altitude is about 6,700m <br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box">Writing on the UKHAS Google Group he says: <br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box">It survived the first night and has made it all the way from Saskatoon to somewhere off the east coast of Newfoundland. If I&#39;m very lucky, it will make it across the pond in the next 48 hours [late Wednesday or Thursday]. <br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box">It should switch to 144.800 MHz FM in the mid-Atlantic, but if there are any European stations that can listen on 144.390 MHz FM, that would be appreciated. <br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box">During the day, it beacons once per minute at 13 seconds after the minute and at night, it&#39;s on a roughly 15 minute cycle.<br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box">See the real-time track of VA5BNC-15 at <br style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="https://aprs.fi/#!call=a%2FVA5BNC-15&amp;timerange=86400&amp;tail=86400" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,51,102);text-decoration-line:none">https://aprs.fi/#!call=a%2FVA5BNC-15&amp;timerange=86400&amp;tail=86400</a><br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box">UKHAS Google Group <br style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/ukhas" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,51,102);text-decoration-line:none">https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/ukhas</a><br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box">Some useful high altitude balloon links <br style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="https://amsat-uk.org/beginners/balloons/" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,51,102);text-decoration-line:none">https://amsat-uk.org/beginners/balloons/</a></p></div>