[OZAPRS] High Altitude Balloons

[Matthew Cook]

Scott,

As Mark has suggested feel free to email us both offline.

73

Matthew
VK5ZM
AREG/Horus

On 23 November 2017 at 08:39, Mark Jessop <lenniethelemming at gmail.com>
wrote:

> That would have been a Project Horus writeup - Matt (VK5ZM) and I (VK5QI)
> are both members, and were involved in that writeup :-)
>
> Lots to think about when doing a high altitude balloon launch:
> - Authorization from CASA
> - Flight path predictions (i.e. how to know when *not* to launch! -
> http://predict.habhub.org/ )
> - Balloons, helium, lift calculations, etc ( http://habhub.org/calc/ )
>
> and then of course...
> - Radio tracking (be it via APRS, RTTY or something else).
> - Mapping of balloon flight paths (http://tracker.habhub.org/ is much
> nicer than aprs.fi - it will do flight path predictions during the
> flight!)
> - How to actually chase a balloon and get to the landing site before the
> payload does :-)
> - Mapping the balloon flight path without an internet connection (hint:
> https://github.com/projecthorus/oziplotter )
>
> ... unfortunately I need to head off to work, and I can't easily answer
> emails to this list from my phone.
>
> I've been slowly working on write-ups for a lot of the above bits. The
> mapping side of things is mostly covered by the OziPlotter documentation
> linked above. The 'how to chase' bit is still to come...
>
> 73
> Mark VK5QI
>
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 23, 2017 at 7:31 AM, Scott Allister Keith Habgood <
> webster01 at optusnet.com.au> wrote:
>
>> Good morning,
>>                          I was wondering if anyone has had any tracking
>> experience with high altitude balloons? I have had a request from a local
>> school in Dubbo for a project for a senior class. There was an article in
>> Amateur Radio magazine a few years ago, does anyone have a copy of it or
>> know which issue it was?
>>
>> any help/ideas is welcomed.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Scott Habgood
>> VK2UBQ
>> Dubbo NSW
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