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Cornell Grad Students Go Ballooning (Again)

Posted by timothy on from the ithaca-is-gorges dept.

ballooner writes "A group of Cornell University graduate students are attempting to break the Amateur Radio Ballooning duration record this weekend. The project is a continuation from last year when some other Cornell grad students broke the altitude record. The progress of the team can be tracked via their Twitter feed or by monitoring their APRS beacons. For all the HAMs out there, downlinks are available on a 30m wavelength, too."

3 of 58 comments (clear)

  1. It has to be said by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    They're fags.

  2. Re:Troll by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    73's KB0GNK

    It's "73", child. And DEFINITELY no apostrophe. And it's not, in fact, to be used in the plural, so even the "s" is wrong. How many ways can you fuck up in 4 characters.

  3. Re:Troll by moosesocks · · Score: -1, Troll

    Uhm. I've been through a fair number of natural disasters.

    Never seen a HAM trudging through the snow to inform us that the power was going to be out for the next few days at a minimum.

    Never saw a HAM paddling down a flooded street.

    Similarly, depending upon a loose-knit team of amateurs for emergency communications is dangerously unreliable. What if all the HAMs in my small town happen to be away on vacation when a disaster strikes?

    Leave emergency communications to local law enforcement, kthanksbye, and stop trying to justify your love for anachronistic technologies.

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