12:42 local 16/04/2014. Waiting for ALMA-1 to take off from the Netherlands. (rtty 50/500 7n2  434.650 mhz) 13:00 balloon up and waited until 15:23 before detecting feint waterfall trace and audio on headphones.

Still weak at altitude 28.251 metres and I was now comfortably within the blue footprint. Expected to pop at 30.000 so not much chance of going green with this flight. Sure enough when the chute did deploy I had still not received clear data.  Win some loose some!.  On to the next....