This launch is part of the NSF CCLI grant. We have approval to fly in the National Radio Quiet Zone from the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Green...
I have created a stand alone form to submit flight announcements. Located at; http://www.arhab.org/annomail.html this page uses a third party site to send me...
I was getting a haircut earlier today with Jeopardy on the barber shop TV. My attention was piqued when I heard a video 'answer' posed dealing with balloons...
I think there's an extra zero in the figure for the number of radiosondes. About 100 stations fly sondes in the US, so 100*2*365 is 73,000 per year. I remember...
That sounds much better, Mark. I am sure, however, that Jeopardy said 750K as I was astounded and I don't know how many weather stations there are around the...
Hi Pete, I'd heard that the return rate for RAOBs in CONUS is more like 75-80%. I'll check that with EOSS's NOAA members. And yeah, the more interesting...
It's sounding more like Jeopardy is "all ate up" as we say in Iowa. Pete KC0GPB ... From: Mike Manes To: GPSL@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, December 02,...
If you see any of the DARPA challenge balloons....tethered red balloons with a white banner and number below it....please forward the lat/lon coordinates to me...
Hi Bill, I'm following DARPA on Twitter, where I found this site, listing the "public" contestant groups: http://redballoon.wikispaces.com/Groups But I didn't...
I've put a link called "Balloonatics" on the DARPA red balloon wiki: http://redballoon.wikispaces.com/Groups Basically offering $2000 for the first person to...
Is anyone seeing anything? I'm ready and willing to mobilize, but I'm not seeing anything out here. BTW, according to the meta-data on the JPG of #10 balloon...
Report of Balloon 5 from Memphis TN....in a park near the Mississippi River...anyone in the area to confirm with a photo? Please send me any sighting reports. ...
So far we have reports that sound legit of Balloon 3 (Charlotteville, VA) and Balloon 5 (Memphis, TN). Zack has a guess on Balloon 10 in GA. I've searched...
Nothing spotted around Grand Island, NE, but then I'm not surprised. If one were to end up in Nebraska I would expect it to be in Omaha or around the Strategic...
I've confirmed Balloon #3's location in Charlottesville VA in an unusual manner....the Google Map of the coordinates provided to us shows it in a tennis...
Of the three so far, does there appear to be any pattern or anything in common? If so, what is it? Don Fraser WA9WWS ________________________________ From:...
KB9ZNZ-11 is in the air just south of the Salton Sea in CA. at 75,000'. Jeffrey F. Dailey Center for Research & Innovation Research Engineer Taylor University ...
Two of the most accurate ones I have were in city parks. - Bill ... From: Fraser, Don <don.fraser@...> To: GPSL@yahoogroups.com <GPSL@yahoogroups.com>;...
Looks like we had four locations nailed down. - Bill WB8ELK ... From: Zack Clobes <zclobes@...> To: wb8elk@... Cc: Group GPSL <GPSL@yahoogroups.com> ...
Not sure if the eBay auctions are still up there...but it was fun to see all modes of social interaction being used for this challenge.... websites,...
Nicely done, Bill. Also thanks for the informative summary. Looks like a fair number of folks got involved. I thought the use of eBay was quite interesting. ...
None were even remotely close to me, but one thing is that I am amazed on how fast they were all located. Now a question, is did they have a guard at each...
Idle-TymeThe web site says the balloons were / are 8' diameter and there were DARPA reps. stationed at each balloon with information and coord location...
They were supposedly about 5' in diameter, but the photos do look kind of odd - not like any latex I've seen. They had a representative at the balloon. The...
