The European's are still quite active, so I'm wondering where have all the UK guys gone. Cheers 73 Brian g0hdi
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There is still latex ballooning going on in the UK - but not at
the rate it was. I've only done a couple of latex flights myself
over the last couple of years - and both of those were LoRaWAN and
not UKHAS radio based. I'm still selling latex balloons to UK
folk - maybe 25% of my overall balloon sales this year - certainly
down from the heady days. I'm thinking some flights may have
moved to other tracking methods (such as LoRaWAN)
I'm sure Covid, high Helium costs and now high Fuel costs are all
contributory factors. Likewise not having a UKHAS conference for
2 years (due to covid) has put a dampener on things.
As Medad says quite a bit of the interest has swapped to the much cheaper pico balloons.
Steve
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Hi Steve, looking into doing a release or few. Have collected a few sondes and reprogrammed but looking into info on sizes and permissions etc. But firstly need to get balloons, where do you sell them and at what cost?
Thanks
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Thank you for your reply. Appreciated.
Dan
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