[OZAPRS] High Altitude Balloons

[Scott Allister Keith Habgood]

Thanks all for the info. 

Much appreciated.




Scott
VK2UBQ




> On 23 Nov 2017, at 10:27 am, Matthew Cook <vk5zm at bistre.net> wrote:
> 
> 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 <mailto: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/ <http://predict.habhub.org/> )
> - Balloons, helium, lift calculations, etc ( http://habhub.org/calc/ <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/ <http://tracker.habhub.org/> is much nicer than aprs.fi <http://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 <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 <mailto: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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