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join:2001-06-20
Cheyenne, WY
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I have had some experience communication through high altitude balloons. There is, or was, an Amateur Radio group in Boulder, Colorado that launched such balloons it is interesting being able to go through a balloon floating at 100,000 feet and talking with people from Wyoming well down into New Mexico. This on a frequency that in a simplex mode I would expect just a few ten's of miles depending on the terrain. There great potential in this if a number of issues can be addressed, station keeping, maintenance, the big one I see is high altitude lightning. Blue sprites and red jets, etc.
( »elf.gi.alaska.edu/sprites.html ) This type of electrical discharge if far more powerful then the cloud/ground lighting we deal with on earth, and flashes from the cloud tops into the ionosphere.
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