I love the logging feature and being able to know the path moxer-3 actually travelled while out of radio range. And now that Leo appears to have mastered long duration float flights and will soon have

I’m sitting here patiently waiting to see m0xer-3 reappear and wondering, Leo – any thoughts of adding Alan’s beaconing via the ISS feature to your trackers? It would be amazing to occasionally see up

Only 50 more miles to reach NA and won’t take long at current speed between 100-200mph. It will then have travelled 2/3 of the distance around the world to home. Thanks for a most interesting flight L

I liked your eyeball estimate much better. This one puts it much too far west and north to hope it may pass within driving range of James and I. Barry VE6SBS

Within radio range again off the west coast and looks like it will head for Vancouver Island and perhaps over Alberta. If lucky James and I may even be able to watch it pass overhead. Barry VE6SBS

Just to clarify, I didn’t say tangling couldn’t prevent a chute from operating correctly, just that we’ve never had it happen yet. Mike’s quick release is certainly the best answer. We considered tryi

You’ll sometimes get lucky and have much less tangling, but what you experienced is pretty typical and varying balloon to parachute to payload distances makes little difference. Like Mike wrote, the o

When helium was affordable and available we occasionally resorted to taping the file hose to the bottle when a regulator wasn’t available, but I wouldn’t even consider doing something like that with h

I’m thinking back to some of the problems that we’ve had in the past, like when we lost our transmitted APRS signal (until we were within a few hundred feet of our payload during recovery) due to the

NASA was concerned about film being fogged by radiation when they began sending cameras on manned flights, but found it wasn’t a problem. You could try the 3200 or 400 ASA films you mentioned and over

Current and past NOTAMS (for a few months at least) can be viewed online, but you’ll have to search the FAA website for the proper URL as the one I have for viewing Canadian NOTAMs wouldn’t help you m

Idaho works for me and I’m sure a number of others from Alberta. As for “places you don't want to recover in”, we all have those, although many of yours are much worse than most of us have to deal wit

Sparkfun sells the same antenna https://www.sparkfun.com/products/177 Barry VE6SBS

Regarding the hot wire reference, the only thing I can think of is that perhaps there's some type of catalytic hot wire available that either safely recombines any oxygen particles with hydrogen back

You’re right – very close. And close to a road not far from where someone lives (guessing alt is about 2K ft there). Hope Bill has his phone # on it as someone will likely see it before long. And I se

About 2k ft/min descent so landing in roughly 20 min which will put it E or SE of Wichita Falls at the current wind speed and direction. Was this perhaps a Hwoyee balloon? Barry - VE6SBS

About 2k ft/min descent so landing in roughly 20 min which will put it E or SE of Wichita Falls at the current wind speed and direction. Barry - VE6SBS

Looks like she burst! Barry - VE6SBS

A few comments after checking out your : http://www.daveakerman.com/?p=592 link. You mention having GPS problems due to interference and from one of the images it appears you were using a Trimble Lass

James mentioned switching regulators which have been the worst offenders we’ve had to deal with, but anything with a micro-processor generating harmonic rich digital signals must also be considered, a