[PPRAANet] Amateur Radio Balloons

[Bob K0NR - email list]

The report seems credible.
Here's an article that has quite a bit of detail.
https://www.rtl-sdr.com/the-us-airforce-may-have-shot-down-an-amateur-radio-pico-balloon-over-canada/

Bob K0NR

On 17-Feb-23 12:45 PM, Jim Madsen wrote:
> Update:
>
> See 
> https://nibbb.org/2023/02/17/a-statement-from-the-nibbb-on-current-events/
>
> K3ILC wrote:
>> I get emails from all over.  Someone sent me an email opining that 
>> one of the balloons shot down over Canada was K9YO-15, an 
>> amateur-radio experimental balloon.
>> I'm skeptical, because it looks like this this balloon is just 
>> arriving over Alaska, as of yesterday afternoon.
>> But check out this website:
>> https://nibbb.org/
>> Click on some of the links for details.
>> There are amateur radio balloons all over the world, and some of them 
>> have circumnavigated the Earth.
>>
>> 73
>>
>> Jim Madsen
>> K3ILC
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