With the directional antenna, I could determine the tree on which the probe had landed. Unfortunately, I could not locate it on the tree.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So I went on to the next probe that had landed in the meanwhile originating from Bad Liebenzell as well. As it became dark I just drove near the probe and look for a parking space to acquire and decode its signal: <\/p>\n\n\n\n [ 38] 2019-06-26 20:12:48.0 lat: 48.683769 lon: 9.125001 alt: 490.1 vH: 0.00 D: 263.5 vV: 0.00 (ID9:17047441)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n A Saturday with a little bit of time at hand. So I went for a second sweep to locate the probes. I first went to the 2nd probe 17047441 (DF641F91)<\/em> and found it hanging in a tree — too high for recovery without additional tools. Looking with the binoculars. I could locate the rest of the balloon on the tree top as well. A parachute was nowhere visible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I went on to the other probe with low expectations. To my surprise, 17051037 (DF642D9D), <\/em>had made its way done from the tree and was easily recoverable. Not having recovered any DFM09 so far, I happily went back home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On 2019-08-10 I had successfully tried to reach the probe with fiber rod extended with the trunk of a fallen over tree. At that time, the hook was too small to capture the thread. Now, I came back with a new hook. With the second attempt, I was able to attach the hook to the thread of the probe and pull it down. As the probe flew without a parachute, I guessed that I would be able to recover the complete probe with the rest of the balloon (Normally the parachute entangles itself with the treetop and it is then impossible to remove it). I was wrong however, the thread ripped apart and the rest of the balloon remains in the tree.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 2019-06-26: Tracking the Probes On 25th and 26th of June, 2 DFM09-probes were launched each day near Bad Liebenzell — I have never consciously seen any probes launched from there. It is likely that they were launched by the army as there is a military installation in nearby Calw. On 26th, they landed South of … Continue reading 2019-06-26: DFM09s<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloetzner.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5622"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloetzner.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloetzner.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloetzner.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloetzner.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5622"}],"version-history":[{"count":36,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloetzner.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5789,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloetzner.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5622\/revisions\/5789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloetzner.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloetzner.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloetzner.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.gloetzner.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/20190626_DF642D9D_IMG_0756.jpg\")
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