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January 29, 2019Uncategorizedadminblrb

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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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