[Vk5-wx-sonde] S1040283 retrieved this evening

[Erich Heinzle]

Landed in forest about a km north of mt pleasant bakery.

With reference to the ill-defined nature of the previously published
'bakery distance factor' for sondes landing on a bakery, or bakeries with
score zero, and taking into account the bounded nature of the distance
component, and approaches to spherical probability distributions generally,
an alternative metric along the lines of the following may be suitable:

20*log(α*e^(bakery_score/10) + β*e^(-(distance_in_km_from_bakery/2037.5)^2)

Suitable coefficients for α and β could be empirically derived from
existing data.

With suitable data fitting, we might have something publishable for April
QEX, QST or AR.

Regards,

Erich
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