Montana's Ham Radio Forum

We had a successfuly flight. Launched at 1030 a.m. Balloon rose straight up over Cascade to 25k feet before drifting east, then back west before popping at 84,000ft 6.7 miles NE of Cascade. Recovery took place at 1210 p.m. 9.7 miles NE of Cascade in a field 75 yards from the road. Flight package was...

We will attempt launch of our High Altitude Balloon from Cascade School Tuesday, May 20th, at 1000 hrs MDT. There will be two APRS trackers aboard K7GPS-11 and K7GPS-12. Ground support/chase will be K7GPS-9. We're predicting a flight to 93,000ft and only 3 miles horizontal drift to the ENE, and LZ a...

As part of a Junior High Science Fair project at Cascade Public Schools, where I'm the Tech Coordinator, we're planning to launch at 1500g latex "weather" balloon filled with hydrogen to lift several capsules with science experiments to measure temperature, relative humidity, oxygen satura...