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With over 600 launches to his credit, it easy to say that WB8ELK is an expert in high altitude ballooning and amateur radio. Show Notes. Transcript. Listen to Podcast. Bill Brown, WB8ELK: Master of High Altitude Projects. WB8ELK Balloon Flights. Twitter. Youtube Channel. Hometown: Findlay, Ohio.
- Typical Amateur Radio latex balloon
- Pico Balloons
- KD2KDD KN4IUD
- YO3ICT
- Skytracker
- Actual Flight path
- Over the Horizon telemetry
- Reception Report Database
- Skimming data with Python
- Balloon Tracking web map
Flight Train: Balloon Nichrome cutdown Parachute Primary APRS ATV payload
A handful of hams around the World are developing trackers that weigh less than an ounce. Pico Balloons
A handful of hams around the World are developing trackers that weigh less than an ounce. Pico Balloons
A handful of hams around the World are developing trackers that weigh less than an ounce. Light
Totally solar-powered using very lightweight thin-film flexible solar cells by PowerFilmSolar.
Tracker.habhub.org shows all balloons currently flying
Wrote a Python script to skim WSPR data from WSPRnet.org which reformats it to post to the vehicle tracker websites. Data received as far as Australia from the tiny HF wireless transmitter.
Decoding software used by hundreds of ground stations World-wide uploads reception reports to a central database.
Python script skims the database of the raw position reports coming in from remote ground stations and sends it to a vehicle-tracking website for a position map display.
Final result of reformatted raw WSPR data as displayed on the TRACKER. HABHUB.ORG map. Also shows up on APRS.FI
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Launch of 4 high altitude balloon experiments to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the first BalloonSat flight in the US by Bill Brown WB8ELK. First live camera TV transmissions from a high altitude weather balloon - 1988 from the Mojave Desert and 1989 from Illinois.
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Aug 12, 2021 · This is a recorded talk from our Beginner's Academy Zoom Meeting on August 11th, 2021. I launched a pico balloon from Oklahoma on July 20th, 2021. It carried a Skytracker payload developed by Bill Brown W8ELK. I got APRS reports from it for ten days. It cruised above 28,000 feet and gave us much entertainment.
Skytracker. Small balloons designed for high-alti- Figure 1 — A balloon project from Bill Brown, WB8ELK; Paul Verhage, KD4STH, and Ann Boes, KDØQCA, carrying a 4-H Lab Revo-lution student experiment at 53,000 feet. This photo was taken by a balloon launched by Jeff Ducklow, NØNQN, of the Mayberry Galactic balloon group.
Feb 23, 2023 · February 23, 2023. 7 min read. Did the Pentagon Shoot Down a Harmless Ham Radio Balloon? Surging numbers of small research balloons increase the odds of airborne mistaken identity—and harsher...
Learn how to send a balloon carrying amateur radio around the world from Bill Brown, WB8ELK. Focus on how to receive balloon signals via APRS and WSPR modes and how to track them online. Bill shares practical advice on trackers as well as balloons that you can use for best success.
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