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 More options Aug 13 2012, 5:25 am
From: Spoz <mr.s...@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2012 02:25:18 -0700 (PDT)
Local: Mon, Aug 13 2012 5:25 am
Subject: Re: High Altitude Balloons
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On Monday, August 13, 2012 4:50:38 PM UTC+10, buzz wrote:

> If you are doing this as a self-educational task ( ie not for profit ),
> then getting a HAM radio license will give you a lot more opportunities to
> mess with the spectrum legally. ( eg the "Foundational" or slightly more
> advanced "Standard" licenses: *
> http://www.wia.org.au/licenses/standard/about/*<http://www.wia.org.au/licenses/standard/about/>).

It's such a cool project that I'm sacrificing a day at work each week to
spend on this; it is most definitely not for profit, though I might get to
travel to the launch sites for free :) I thought it was more difficult to
get a HAM license but if that's the case I might go down that route after
all!

On Monday, August 13, 2012 4:56:51 PM UTC+10, Joel Byrnes wrote:

> Cool :) I think the UK one was sending its GPS signal back the whole time,
> which aided retrieval. You could post the lat/long live on the website
> alongside the video! Just make sure it's waterproof and floats :)

That's the idea - there's even talk of coding an app that downloads the
coord's and gives a heading and distance etc for realtime tracking!

 
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