[NLRS] Balloon beacon..

[Glen Overby]

Ford wrote:
> The reason I said 30K' was because of other balloon rides I've
> seen--particularly in Kansas.  They would get 18k' to 25k' and then fail
> for one reason or another.  I followed them very closely a couple of
> years ago.

The UND and UMN groups have been successful at reaching 100k' several times.

> About the only way I can figure to circumvent this is to use 2 balloons =
> (twice the helium) to get enough lift to make for a fast ascent.  The =
> weather service has this all dialed in pretty good, based on their =
> standard payload.  Hams tend to use a different payload on every flight =
> and never do get it dialed in properly.  I wonder how the Wx service =
> controls the volume?

>From the UND group's web pages, it appeared that they measure baloon's lift on
the ground.  The NWS probably measures the ammount of gas pumped into the
baloon.  That is, the hams do it the cheap way.

Glen