| Re: [GMCnet] This thing was near my house today [message #319522 is a reply to message #319517] |
Fri, 23 June 2017 23:58   |
Richard Denney
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My local ham radio club has flown balloons with transmitter payloads, and
if we only get to 70,000 feet we are kinda disappointed. We've been as high
as 110,000 feet before the balloon burst. The balloon bursts all by
itself--the skin gets cold and brittle, and the little bit of helium we put
in it eventually expands too much.
Chasing down the payload is a challenge.
It's been four or five years since we have flown a balloon, come tothink of
it.
Rick "speaking of ham radio--using the coach for Field Day this weekend"
Denney
On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 10:43 PM Bruce Hislop wrote:
> The magazine Nuts 'n Volts regularly has articles about "near space"
> balloon flights usually carried out by high school classes or college
> classes.
> Its pretty neat the stuff they do. I remember a recent article where they
> focused a camera on a large bag of potato chips which burst somewhere in
> around 60,000ft.
>
> They track elevation, GPS, temperature, light spectrum amoungst other cool
> things.
>
> GMC content, Potato chips go great with GMC'ing.
>
> --
> Bruce Hislop
> ON Canada
> 77PB, 455 Dick P. rebuilt, DynamicEFI EBL EFI & ESC.
> Hubler 1 ton front end
> http://www.gmcmhphotos.com/photos/showphoto.php?photo=29001
> My Staff says I never listen to them, or something like that
>
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Rick Denney
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