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| Atlantic Crossing By Amateur Radio High Altitude Balloon
| from the ever-lengthening-journeys dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Wednesday December 14, @12:22 (Communications)
| with 44 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/12/14/1655245/atlantic-crossing-by-amateur-radio-high-altitude-balloon?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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First time submitter StatureOfLiberty writes "The [0]California Near
Space Project launched a high altitude weather balloon from San Jose,
California 4:00 PM local time Sunday afternoon (Dec 11). Over the past 3
days it [1]managed to cross the United States and then the Atlantic
Ocean. The balloon passed the coastline of Spain about 12:40 AM (US
Eastern Standard Time) Wednesday morning (Dec 14). It has since popped
and landed in the Mediterranean Sea. This is a huge accomplishment. The
[2]previous distance record was about 3,300 miles. This one traveled
about 6,200 miles. Enthusiasts tracked the balloon via the web throughout
most of the trip thanks to a ham radio technology called [3]APRS which
received data transmitted by the balloon and [4]logged it to databases on
the internet. Thanks to APRS stations around the world (some of whom
changed their normal listening frequencies to help with the tracking
process) data was available for most of the flight." [full story available, use below links]

Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/12/14/1655245/atlantic-crossing-by-amateur-radio-high-altitude-balloon?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting

Links:
0. http://californianearspaceproject.com/
1. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/12/14/transatlantic_balloon/
2. http://www.arhab.org/
3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_Packet_Reporting_System
4. http://aprs.fi/?call=K6RPT-11