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Yesterday February 1st the balloon was heading directly for the Northern California coastline to finish its second orbit around the Earth. Over the evening it most likely passed over its launching point two orbits ago from Lodi California. This Tuesday morning we find the Balloon initiating its third orbit, a noon day static map shows its position near Nebraska. All telemetry maintains in a normal range, no doubt over night the high altitude balloon was pushed along by a brisk jet stream. May you pass by this way again our adventurous traveler!
Warming Stations will be open from Noon to 8 pm today in three locations;
West Point at Lions Community Hall 22283 Highway 26
Mountain Ranch Community Center 7867 Whiskey Slide Road
Murphys Fire Station at 58 Jones St.
Calaveras Transit Dial-a-Ride will assist with service to locations
Zoom
Please plan to attend Wednesday’s January 27 Zoom presentation. 10:00 PM AST / 9:00 PM EST / 8:00 PM CST / 7:00 PM MST / 6:00 PM PST / 5:00 PM AKST / 4:00 PM HST Topic: Pandemic Ham Club Radio Activities, an opportunity to grow Speaker/Presenter: Anthony Luscre, K8ZT This is a Zoom presentation that ALL HAM CLUBS and organizations should attend. cid:em61c736c6-9008-4b79-ac1c-10f8ffa71418@maxx · This meeting will be recorded. By participating you consent to being recorded. · Please change your display name to Your First Name, Call Sign and Location, e.g. Dan K7REX Idaho. · Please stay muted until ready to speak. Your space bar works like a PTT for unmuting · You may ask questions in chat; please stay on topic while using chat. Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/2128884758?pwd=WExjZC82b2JiNXd2UXN4MWFvb3RmZz09 Meeting ID: 212 888 4758 Passcode: CLUBS
A congratulation’s goes out to David Voit whose high altitude balloon WB6TOU-13 a few days ago completed one orbit. The balloon continues on, and as of this morning traveled into the North Atlantic for its second time. David, in his previous attempts always incorporated a study of why the balloon failed. He always pushed ahead in making improvements. A much improved version of the WSPR/APRS mode has made tracking information on WB6TOU-13 very consistent. May the balloon complete many more orbits.
OES
Here’s a great resource OES put together that you folks may find useful: https://calaveras-gis.maps.arcgis.com/apps/MapSeries/index.html?appid=da5475a4457b46129f63349d49eb0a85
XCA ARES, I wanted to pass on some info to you so you can help pass it throughout the county. 1st look at the Calaveras county coronavirus site at https://covid19.calaverasgov.us/ It now contains more info then just covid-19.
Team, Here is some information that our section EC has passed along. Our OES would also like to let you know that Iron Stone Winery is the newest testing center in the county. You can register for a test at https://bit.ly/3h1pTMT. The San Andreas Clinic has a drive up testing call 209 877-0001 for an appointment. Mark Twain Hospital has a info line at 209 754-2564, as well as a call center at 209 754-2896. I have the OES Covid-19 call on Wednesday and hopefully they will announce vaccination locations and times.
Looks like we are not going to have a PSPS in this county. Sam – WS6P ARES Emergency Coordinator – Calaveras County RACES Radio Officer – Calaveras County Hm: (209) 293-4010 1st Net Cell: (209) 418-9207 W6WPT Repeater 440.100 + T100 WIRES-X node 33432