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
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)
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:
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>
>
> I would like to meet the ham who paid for that balloon. Must be flush
> with cash.
>
> 73, Keith NM5G
>
The missiles are new old stock. I bet the value is barely $250,000! The Air
Force needed something to clear out the old inventory.
Mike Hardwick.
> On Feb 16, 2023, at 1:01 PM, JP Pritchard via BVARC wrote:
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>
> Just think. Each of the missiles fired at the balloon or balloons cost about
Let me get this straight, the GOVt spent a million dollars to shoot down a
10$ mylar happy face balloon with a $15 dollar raspberry Pi swinging on a
string underneath it?
On Thu, Feb 16, 2023 at 12:35 PM Keith Dutson via BVARC
wrote:
> I would like to meet the ham who paid for that balloon. Mu
have shot down an Amateur Radio Pico
Balloon over Canada
Let me get this straight, the GOVt spent a million dollars to shoot down a 10$
mylar happy face balloon with a $15 dollar raspberry Pi swinging on a string
underneath it?
On Thu, Feb 16, 2023 at 12:35 PM Keith Dutson via BVARC
So if the ballon owner was a lawyer… are they going to sue Biden for
damages
On Thu, Feb 16, 2023 at 2:28 PM M Reiter via BVARC wrote:
> Let me get this straight, the GOVt spent a million dollars to shoot down
> a 10$ mylar happy face balloon with a $15 dollar raspberry Pi swinging on a
> strin
Not sure about happy face. No Raspberry, but an APRS and/or WSPR transponder. (You think they used WSPR to find it?) Typos Compliments of iPhoneChris LuppensOn Feb 16, 2023, at 2:27 PM, M Reiter via BVARC wrote:Let me get this straight, the GOVt spent a million dollars to shoot down a 10$ mylar
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
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.
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,
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
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
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,
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
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!
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