[hackpgh-discuss] Re: crash course balloon launches/radios?

  • From: Douglas Philips <dgou@xxxxxxx>
  • To: "hackpgh-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <hackpgh-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 10:48:29 -0500

Our wiki has a bunch of info including links to the jet stream launch/recovery 
predictor. (Also, this is really not a good time of year for launching around 
here.)

Sent from my portable phone-like device

> On Jan 18, 2015, at 22:48, "j. eric townsend" <jet@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> I don't do balloons, but some of you do and maybe you can point me at a crash 
> course / UBER faq so I can help some visitors come up to speed on local/state 
> rules.   I'll meet them this week, all I know so far is that they're looking 
> at launching something like this:
> 
> <http://www.ebay.com/itm/New-300-Gram-Weather-Balloon-Meteorological-/170979077935>
> 
> doing RF collection then recovering the balloon and doing something with the 
> collected data.
> 
> It's very possible that they know more about this than I ever will, but I do 
> know that they are visitors and aren't familiar with local/PA regs.
> 
> thx
> --jet
> 
> -- 
> J. Eric Townsend
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