VE3OCL Balloon Tracked!

The latest in a series of small balloon flights equipped with HF transmitters is making its way across the Atlantic.

I first picked up VE3OCL, flight S-13, with its tiny 20mW output, at tea time yesterday (05/07/16), where it had already made very good progress.

Receiving VE3OCL balloon clearly this (06/07/16) morning.

This morning, just as I was about to give up listening, the balloon's signal appeared on the decode screen at a good -22dB.  It's now out at almost exactly half way across the Atlantic.

Over the next 24 hours, wind flows will take the balloon rapidly from its current mid-latitudes position to a much more northerly one, possibly becoming trapped in a deep low making its way towards the UK from SW Iceland.