21.10.2014.-M10-Ljubljana-03 UTC

[Krun0]

Typ sondy:M10
HW:402211167
Frekvencia: 403MHz
Miesto vypustenia:LJUBLJANA
Dátum a časvypustenia: 21.10.2014. 03 UTC
Dátum a čas nálezu: 21.10.2014. 09 UTC
LAT:45.95175
LON:15.93569

Hunt for this probe began with message from colleague probe-hunter that M10 is in my vicinity.
I was without internet connection last few weeks , so I have not been aware of probe landing predictions and my
home based receiver was not active.. without equipment in my trunk....
The height of last point of probe was about 900 meters , and there was no forest in near vicinity, just risk that probe will end in the nearby village..
Anyway I decide to go for it, but first return home to take some equipment. After 30 km drive to Pila near Stubicke toplice,
500 meters from location sound from baofeng managed to calm down my nerves....probe is there and is alive.....
I drove to few hundred meters from last point and set up decoding gear....
copied coordinates to phone and walk to it.... 10 minute job......
it is an ideal location for practicing radiogoniometry..
but I was in a hurry to return to my work, so I decided for quick method...
Probe was ended on arable land near hail defense installation....
sensor arm was bent and housing cracked, probably due to high falling velocity
(above 14m/s, little or no balloon remnant left) and hard ground,
I did not switched off this probe.... I want to determine life of batteries, to determine time frame for hunting
.... I still didn't done this for M10...
Now is 16 hours from launching and probe is still operational...i will post final time period after test is completed..

thanks for reading bad English and regards.
kruno

[Krun0]

Last readable frame emited was in 01:46 UTC 22.10....there was few sporadic frames after that (no GPS data).
In tis case batery lasted 22h46min....so no hurry for M10 hunt.