Long distance APRS

How about this for LoRa APRS - look at the “Longest Distance” column:

But that was from a German pico-balloon, flying at about 10km altitude across Northern England:

When I first spotted it, I wondered why it was only being received by a couple of stations in the East Midlands and not by any other iGates in the country. I deduced that they were on an alternative frequency and guessed 433.775 (a popular EU APRS channel), so I re-tuned my iGate to listen for it.

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