Saturday, July 11, 2009

Into Space (almost) with the Basic Stamp








L. Paul Verhage has been a leader in the edge-of-space balloon game for a long time now. This morning, Hack-A-Day led me to a site that has an on-line version of his book, and a collection of his balloon and Basic Stamp articles for Nuts-and-Volts. Inspirational stuff.

Here it is: http://www.parallax.com/tabid/567/Default.aspx
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2 comments:

  1. Rick N3FJZJuly 28, 2009 at 6:27 PM

    Bill,

    Here's an interesting site I stumbled upon, about another Amateur Radio balloon project from the 70's:

    http://www.gregsbasicelectronics.com/balloonflights/balloonflights.htm

    Rick ~ N3FJZ

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  2. KB1LQCJuly 29, 2009 at 11:36 PM

    High Altitude Balloons are pretty amazing when you think about it. Amateur radio really provides quite the opportunity to get involved! I really enjoyed the website about the HALO 2 balloon. While not amateur radio, it is very impressive, especially the presentation of the data, thoroughness, and high quality videos with audio! I am amazed at the 90,000+ ft elevation video with the quite breeze going by, its really amazing.

    http://www.natrium42.com/halo/flight2/

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