[OZAPRS] High altitude ballooning in Oz

[David Tilson]

Hi Neil,

Recently there was a group in Melbourne that did this.  The organiser
was Phillip philpawlowski at optusnet.com.au and there is some info at
http://members.optusnet.com.au/~philpawlowski/index.htm

Hope this helps.

Regards,

Davidt, VK3UR

-----Original Message-----
From: Neil Justusson [mailto:njustusson at gmail.com] 
Sent: Friday, 17 February 2006 6:53 PM
To: ozaprs at aprs.net.au
Subject: [OZAPRS] High altitude ballooning in Oz


Hi folks,

Does anyone know of a person or group that has flown or tried to fly  
an "amateur radio high altitude balloon" here in Australia? If you  
aren't familiar with it, the idea is to send a weather balloon into  
"near space", altitudes as high as 100,000 feet (30ish KM) with a  
small payload (perhaps a couple of KG) using APRS to track the  
flight.  There is quite a lot of activity in the US (see  
www.arhab.org or  http://www.universetoday.com/am/publish/ 
satellites_budget.html?1912006).

I'm quite interested in doing this, but I'd like to leverage any  
experience others in Australia may already have.

Thanks,
Neil Justusson

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