Hey y'all, Just launched a DIY pico balloon with an LED attached to it (plus UHF beacon, etc). I literally just want to see how far it goes hehe. It took a while to get everything to the 10g weight li

US Senators Introduce Legislation to Track, Identify High-Altitude Balloons https://link.theepochtimes.com/mkt_app/us-senators-introduce-legislation-to-track-identify-high-altitude-balloons_5127148.ht

Hey all, In general, how do the predictions of the CUSF engine (predict.sondehub.org) compare with the actual landing site? I've heard the figure of +- 2 miles. What is your opinion on this? Still wor

Hi I think this was a topic at GPSL 2021 but I may have the year wrong. Someone demonstrated a stand alone tracker web server that ran on a Pi. They were running it in their chase vehicle and just usi

Hello everybody, Does anyone know of a lightweight *cheap* camera for HABs that can work with the arduino, or at least be triggered to film only for 3 hours or so? 73! VE3SVF

Hello everyone! 13 year old here, very interested in high altitude ballooning. Callsign VE3SVF. I've been experimenting with weather sats (both on VHF and 1.7GHz) for a while now; the only reason I ha

It may be more successful for us to voluntarily suggest compromises in tightening balloon regulations that we could live with rather than just begging for them not to change at all. Some ideas for con

Here are the poll results for [GPSL] I also run this poll over on [picoballoon] - here are the results from there: Strong support for the let things blow over options in both polls. Steve

Could a moderator please close the poll I created a couple of days ago, I cant find any way to do this as the poll creator. Once the poll is closed the results should become available.

A new poll has been created: Now some dust has settled: What action (if any) should the HAB community take over potential additional regulation to balloon launching (as mentioned by the US President).

Supposedly this is a closer photo of the Chinese spy balloon Paulo’s taken by a U2. No idea if this is real or not. I would still estimate it at about 40 feet long versus 120 feet long. It look like i

This reporter interviewed me and others over the past couple of days. https://www.flyingmag.com/did-usaf-shoot-down-a-hobbyist-club-balloon/ - Bill WB8ELK

This detailed article is a great description of the huge benefits of Amateur Radio Pico Balloons to atmospheric science and STEM education:written by our local Univ of Alabama Huntsville students. htt

I did a search to see if I can find lightweight ADS-B transponders and found this one: https://uavionix.com/product/ping2020i/ It weighs about 20 grams but add Supercaps to handle the 30W brief ping p

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: L. Paul Verhage <nearsys@...> Date: Mon, Feb 20, 2023, 8:45 PM Subject: To: L. Paul Verhage <nearsys@...> Due to concern about the Chinese spy balloon, leg

And so the effort to shut down all amateur use of high altitude balloons begins. It is always easier to legislate a problem away than to understand it fully and deal with it in a rational manner. My b

we believe the object shot down over lake Huron was wb0emj -9 communications were lost over Wisconsin but the track it was on would have put it there at the time of the object being shot down. Stan Si

Cross posting from [UKHAS] to [GPSL] (For those of you that don't know Dan, he is a Professional High Altitude Balloon Consultant - ex google loon). Steve G8KHW On 13/02/2023 17:53, Dan Bowen wrote: I

As you probably know, The upbeat "99 Red Balloons" song tells a dark story. It predicted the last two weeks with shocking accuracy. It stops short only of the last verse, before nuclear war. You and I

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