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January 29, 2019Uncategorizedadminblrb

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1 Link Sites

  • Ham Links
  • Hootstuff
  • Radio Scouting Links
  • Scout Links
  • Weather Links

1 Partner Sites

  • Follow the Balloon.com
  • K3BEG.com
  • KC3AFB.com
  • Radio Ballooning . Com
  • Radio Merit Badge . Info

Aircraft Tracking

  • Flight Radar 24
  • FlightAware stats- bgibson
  • FlightAware stats- k3lr
  • Planefinder

Articles, Books, Podcasts, YouTube clips

  • Everything About Flying a Pico Balloon
  • HamTalk Live with Bill Brown, WB8ELK

Balloon Equipment Vendors

  • Aliexpress
  • Aliexpress- 36 inch clear balloons
  • Bargain Balloons
  • Custom PBC (JLCPCB)
  • Grabo balloons
  • Gunze Nylon Film with High-Gas-Barrier
  • Metalized Balloon Film by Fluffy
  • Meteorological Balloon Supply
  • Power Film Solar
  • Random Engineering
  • Recommended Balloons
  • Scientific Balloon Solutions
  • Si5351A PicoBoB (Breakout Board)
  • Stratostar
  • Tons of Fun Grabo 91cm balloon
  • Tracksoar- Open Source APRS Tracker
  • uBLOX MAX-M8C Pico Breakout with Chip Antenna
  • WB8ELK Skytracker

Balloon Tracking

  • APRS.FI
  • APRS.fi Export Tool
  • Beginners Guide to Tracking using LoRa
  • Dl-FLDIGI
  • DL-FLDIGI: Beginners Guide to Tracking using dl-fldigi
  • HAB telemetry visualisation
  • Habhub
  • Habhub Habitat
  • Hysplit Model (NOAA)
  • LU7AA.org
  • SM3ULC Github Page
  • Sondehub Tracker
  • Spacenear.us
  • TinyGS, the Open Source Global Satellite Network
  • WSPR Scanner for used Balloon Telemetry Slots

Balloons- 32" Sphere

  • Basic instructions for 32 inch 4/B balloons (Sphere balloon) Inflating Video
  • Yokohama Sphere Balloon(32inch)：1bag(10pieces)

Calculators and Tools

  • Balloon Burst Calculator
  • Balloon Calculator spreadsheet (GitHub site)
  • Balloon Performance Calculator
  • Balloon Performance Calculator Tutorial
  • Distance between GPS coordinates calculator
  • Distance between GPS coordinates calculator II
  • Distance between GPS coordinates calculator III
  • Landing Predictor
  • Near-Space Balloon Burst Altitude Calculator
  • NOAA Balloon Flight Forecasting Tools
  • Richardeoin Calculator
  • Science Direct Geopotential Height
  • Simon's World Map
  • SPLAT – Super Pressure Low Altitude Tests
  • Superpressure Balloon Calculator spreadsheet (GitHub site)
  • USI High Altitude Balloon Calculator

Events

  • Global Space Balloon Challenge
  • GREAT PLAINS SUPER LAUNCH
  • UK HAS 2016

Groups and Organizations

  • Aloft Super Pressure Balloons for High Altitude Analysis
  • Amateur Radio High Altitude Ballooning
  • Amateur Radio Pico-Ballooning picoballoon@groups.io
  • Amateur radio school station DK0LG at the Liborius-Gymnasium Dessau
  • Arizona Near Space Research
  • Balloons: Weather Balloons, Radiosonde, Radiosondy, Armature Radio Balloons, etc. Balloons@groups.io
  • California Near Space Project
  • Edge of Space Sciences
  • HAB Education
  • NASA- Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility
  • NASA- Scientific Balloons
  • Naval Academy Amateur Radio BALLOON Experiments
  • Near Space
  • Northern Illinois Bottlecap Balloon Brigade
  • NWC- APRS and High Altitude Ballooning (ARHAB)
  • Overlook Horizon High Altitude Balloons
  • Spaceport Indiana
  • UBSEDS
  • UKHAS Wiki
  • University of Southern Indiana High Altitude Balloon page
  • W5KUB

Lifting Gases

  • Different grades of helium and what they are used for
  • Helium tanks Part 1
  • Helium tanks Part 2
  • Hydrogen Machine

Misc

  • Slides for Solar Power Project by Central Arizona State
  • UKHAS Payload and Flight documents

PICO Pilots

  • Alan Adamson W7QO
  • Andy Nguyen- VK3YT-PicoSpace.Net
  • Bill Brown WB8ELK
  • David Beverstein VE3KCL
  • Jared Smith N7SMI
  • Leo Bodnar M0XER
  • Michael Hojnowski KD2EAT
  • Mustafa Tan TA2MUN
  • QRP Labs
  • Stefan Biereigel DK3SB
  • Thomas Krahn KT5TK
  • Tomasz Brol SP9UOB
  • TT7 High Altitude Balloon

Projects- Cubex

  • Cubex

Projects- How To Make A Picoballoon (Instructable)

  • 1 How to Make a Picoballoon
  • Adafruit-feather-32u4-radio-with-lora-radio-module/setup
  • Circuit Board Design Class
  • How to Solder SMD Components
  • TT7's Blog
  • TT7's Custom Heat Sealer
  • TT7's GitHub site
  • Using LoraWAN and the Things Network with Feather

Projects- LightAPRS-W

  • 1 LightAPRS-W (+WSPR) tracker
  • 2 LightAPRS-W (+WSPR) tracker (GitHub page)
  • 3 Tips & Tricks for Pico Balloons
  • Hakki CAN
  • MDM-3 Assembly, Fill & Launch
  • Mustafa Tan

Projects- Misc

  • An APRS GPS
  • DIY Lightweight Pi Tracker with SSDV
  • Easy Build High Altitude Balloon Tracker (LoRa)
  • Getting started with the NTX2B and the Arduino – Part 1 The Basics
  • HAB APRS tracker Make project
  • Habduino
  • K1FM Pico Balloon GitHub Site
  • PecanPico10 lightweight APRS tracker
  • W3PM Project Page

Projects- OM3BC tracker

  • OM3BC tracker info
  • Useful Payload for Balloon Tests

Projects- Pi in the Sky

  • 1 Pi in the Sky Project
  • Pi in the Sky Github files
  • Pi in the Sky Installation Manual
  • Pi in the Sky PC Board

Projects- PicoAPRSLite

  • PicoAPRS home page
  • PicoAPRS-Lite V1 manual

Projects- S-4 Tracker

  • S-4 Tracker
  • U4B HF WSPR High Altitude balloon tracker (Youtube)
  • WSPR Coding Process

Projects- UB4

  • QRP Labs U4B – Balloon tracker
  • Reach for the skies: Extreme QRP at 35,000 feet

Projects- Zachtek WSPR-TX Pico

  • 1 Zachtek Home Page
  • WSPR-TX Pico Documentation page
  • WSPR-TX Pico Transmitter

Weather Balloons (Latex)

  • Ballooning Challenge dot Org Tutorials
  • Flextrak- a PiZero form factor AVR based High Altitude Balloon Tracker
  • HAB- Lessons Learned
  • High Altitude Ballooning, From The Ground Up (and back again)
  • High Altitude Science Weather Balloon Tutorials
  • High Altitude Weather Balloon Project
  • How to Launch Weather Balloons- Overlook Horizon
  • Kaymont METEOROLOGICAL BALLOONS
  • Plan the whole crazy thing (Weather Balloon Launch)
  • Project Archimedes
  • Project High-Altitude
  • Project Horus
  • Students for the Exploration and Development of Space (SEDS-Canada)

YouTube Resources

  • Reach for the skies: Extreme QRP at 35,000 feet
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