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This blog describes the flight of a cell phone attached to some helium balloons.
It left Chicago at 7:30PM on Wednesday June 3rd, and arrived in Nova Scotia about 24 hours later. It appears to have not had a good signal for most of the flight, but was able to report it's path and coordinates once it landed.
Currently it is in some trees, likely killed during a rain shower the morning of Saturday 6/6/2009. It might dry off or wake up, but it seems a bit unlikely.
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- Coming soon- Ivory Bomber
- Last update from Ervin
- More pictures from Bill
- The end of the road
- Fw: Explorer report
- Friendly neighbors going the extra mile (literally)
- Offline?
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- Sleep, Icarus, sleep...
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- Delay!
- Launch #3 scheduled for ~4:15 PM CDT Today
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June
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Looks like the south edge of the soccer field, except spinning faster :)
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Even just a few feet off the ground the Signal/Noise ratio is junk.
20000 is about perfect, 10000 is good, 2000 is marginal, and less than 500 we can't send anything.
Crappy antenna. We need to find something better than stock but not as nutty as V2.
ReplyDeleteYeah.... well... we'll get over Lake Michigan and then the updates will be PLENTIFUL. ha ha.
ReplyDeleteBut really, it should head across IN, OH, then Pennsylvania. At 20 MPH it'll be in Columbus by the morning.