[BLT] BLT Launch must have been late Friday, May 24, 2002!

[N5MT@aol.com]

BLT launched from Warton, TX is now on the ground.  
I copied the ten meter signal until 2020utc here in Houston, TX until I could 
not hear any signal.
The beep rate of the signal on ten got up as high as 176/min just two minutes 
before LOS.
At 1920-1940utc the beep rate was 4/min and S9 on my beam direction 250 deg.
At 2011utc rate was 48/min.
AT 2015utc rate was 112/min.
At  2018utc rate was 176.min and S3.
LOS between 2019-2020.

A friend Dave W5BXX lives north of Hull airport about Hwy 6 and old Hwy 90A, 
copied the signal S9 when I copied it S7 here.  His tower is up about 60 ft 
with a large log periodic.  Dave could not hear the signal after it was down. 
 

I am now debating if I can locate the ten meter signal by just heading out 
Hwy 90A past Richmond/Rosenberg.  If the package is on the ground it will be 
very hard to find by just driving around north of Wharton towards the East 
Bernard-Wallis, TX area.  I have no GPS data.  I could not hear anything on 
FRS ch 9 from my house south of West University.   Those of you that have a 
Roads of Texas map see page 133. 

More later. 73  Mike N5MT 


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