Re: [BVARC] The US Airforce may have shot down an Amateur Radio Pico Balloon over Canada

LOVE IT! BTW, the Naval Academy's midshipmen balloon experiment site (linked under the pico balloon picture) is extremely interesting. I'm not a "ballooner," but that site piqued my interest! Gus K5GMB On Thu, Feb 16, 2023 at 8:27 AM Christopher Boone via BVARC wrote: > Think we're getting a

Re: [BVARC] The US Airforce may have shot down an Amateur Radio Pico Balloon over Canada

I would like to meet the ham who paid for that balloon.  Must be flush with cash. 73, Keith NM5G On Thursday, February 16, 2023 at 10:28:57 AM CST, Gus Bernard via BVARC wrote: LOVE IT! BTW, the Naval Academy's midshipmen balloon experiment site (linked under the pico balloon picture)

Re: [BVARC] The US Airforce may have shot down an Amateur Radio Pico Balloon over Canada

Just think. Each of the missiles fired at the balloon or balloons cost about half a million dollars. JP K5JPP > On 02/16/2023 12:34 PM Keith Dutson via BVARC wrote: > > > > I would like to meet the ham who paid for that balloon. Must be flush > with cash. > > 73, Keith NM5G >

Re: [BVARC] The US Airforce may have shot down an Amateur Radio Pico Balloon over Canada

The missiles are new old stock. I bet the value is barely $250,000! The Air Force needed something to clear out the old inventory. Mike Hardwick. > On Feb 16, 2023, at 1:01 PM, JP Pritchard via BVARC wrote: > >  > Just think. Each of the missiles fired at the balloon or balloons cost about

Re: [BVARC] The US Airforce may have shot down an Amateur Radio Pico Balloon over Canada

Let me get this straight, the GOVt spent a million dollars to shoot down a 10$ mylar happy face balloon with a $15 dollar raspberry Pi swinging on a string underneath it? On Thu, Feb 16, 2023 at 12:35 PM Keith Dutson via BVARC wrote: > I would like to meet the ham who paid for that balloon. Mu

Re: [BVARC] The US Airforce may have shot down an Amateur Radio Pico Balloon over Canada

have shot down an Amateur Radio Pico Balloon over Canada Let me get this straight, the GOVt spent a million dollars to shoot down a 10$ mylar happy face balloon with a $15 dollar raspberry Pi swinging on a string underneath it? On Thu, Feb 16, 2023 at 12:35 PM Keith Dutson via BVARC

Re: [BVARC] The US Airforce may have shot down an Amateur Radio Pico Balloon over Canada

So if the ballon owner was a lawyer… are they going to sue Biden for damages On Thu, Feb 16, 2023 at 2:28 PM M Reiter via BVARC wrote: > Let me get this straight, the GOVt spent a million dollars to shoot down > a 10$ mylar happy face balloon with a $15 dollar raspberry Pi swinging on a > strin

Re: [BVARC] The US Airforce may have shot down an Amateur Radio Pico Balloon over Canada

Not sure about happy face. No Raspberry, but an APRS and/or WSPR transponder.  (You think they used WSPR to find it?) Typos Compliments of iPhoneChris LuppensOn Feb 16, 2023, at 2:27 PM, M Reiter via BVARC wrote:Let me get this straight,  the GOVt spent a million dollars to shoot down a 10$ mylar

Re: [BVARC] The US Airforce may have shot down an Amateur Radio Pico Balloon over Canada

I'm guessing they're about $60,000 each, and it would probably be cheaper to fire cash at the balloons. The plus side is that the recovery effort would be much quicker. I was wondering why the US Air Force was in Canada anyway. 73 John Denison KD5YOU On 2/16/2023 2:02 PM, Mike Hardwick via BV

Re: [BVARC] The US Airforce may have shot down an Amateur Radio Pico Balloon over Canada

Does K9YO get a bill from the Air Force for the flight time, fuel, labor and materials? 73MarkK5MGJ On Thursday, February 16, 2023 at 02:45:13 PM CST, John Denison via BVARC wrote: I'm guessing they're about $60,000 each, and it would probably be cheaper to fire cash at the balloons.

Re: [BVARC] The US Airforce may have shot down an Amateur Radio Pico Balloon over Canada

They sure did. Here is a link to a website where you can track the balloon. http://wspr.rocks/ Just type in K9YO and do a search for the last week then the map button to see its last known transmissions. It was using 20m and maybe 5 watts but I bet it was more like .5 watts. On Thu, Feb 16,

Re: [BVARC] The US Airforce may have shot down an Amateur Radio Pico Balloon over Canada

Here is another website to track all of the pico balloons. https://nibbb.org/links-to-locate-and-track/ On Thu, Feb 16, 2023 at 4:14 PM Brian Shircliffe wrote: > They sure did. Here is a link to a website where you can track the > balloon. > > http://wspr.rocks/ > > Just type in K9YO and do a

Re: [BVARC] The US Airforce may have shot down an Amateur Radio Pico Balloon over Canada

They were there at the invitation of the Canadian government.. they followed the rules... On Thu, Feb 16, 2023, 2:45 PM John Denison via BVARC wrote: > I'm guessing they're about $60,000 each, and it would probably be cheaper > to fire cash at the balloons. The plus side is that the recovery eff

Re: [BVARC] The US Airforce may have shot down an Amateur Radio Pico Balloon over Canada

Actually K9YO needs to send them a bill for providing them with a target for practice! On Thursday, February 16, 2023 at 03:59:44 PM CST, mark janzer via BVARC wrote: Does K9YO get a bill from the Air Force for the flight time, fuel, labor and materials? 73MarkK5MGJ On Thursday,

Re: [BVARC] The US Airforce may have shot down an Amateur Radio Pico Balloon over Canada

Im not going to look it all up but I have in the past, a simple man launched missile from a jeep was $50,000 in the 80's anything from a 40M jet will be exponentially higher. and some of the missiles carried are over a million each. the fuel, the time of all involved, and there are many both in

Re: [BVARC] The US Airforce may have shot down an Amateur Radio Pico Balloon over Canada

The guvment said this balloon wasn't of alien origin. I assume they checked K9YO's immigration status. On Friday, February 17, 2023 at 05:48:27 AM CST, Mike Hardwick via BVARC wrote: Actually K9YO needs to send them a bill for providing them with a target for practice! On T