Amateur Radio Roundtable Pico Balloon Project

Tom, W5KUB gives presentation about his Pico Balloons project. He talks about design constraints, technical challenges, how to track the balloon around the world, and how to teach an astronaut to properly launch balloons.

00:00 Introduction
03:16 CQ Magazine
03:45 What is a PicoBalloon?
04:09 Why PicoBalloons look almost empty?
05:25 Typical configuration of a PicoBalloon
09:02 Types of balloons suitable for long lasting flights
10:58 Trackers for balloons
13:35 Build your own tracker!
15:41 YO3ICT tracker
16:36 Geofencing
17:45 NASA astronaut, Doug Wheelock, launches a balloon
22:56 3.5 times around the world in 72 days
25:16 Predicting the track
26:07 How to make you balloon go around the world
30:41 APRS or WSPR?
31:42 Modified WSPR
33:10 14,000km on just 10mW
33:35 Stuffing more data into a WSPR packet
36:33 Resources for flight track prediction
39:55 Ants on balloons
41:32 Options for balloon design
44:41 QRSS from a balloon
46:44 Tracking the W5KUB balloons
49:52 W5KUB show    • Amateur Radio Roundtable promo 9 17 2020  

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