Field day balloon launches with radio packages
Amateur High |Altitude Balloon (HAB) Launches – W4OVH Field Day 2025 One Field Day bonus is an educational project. At one of the planning meetings, we decided to do a balloon launch with a radio package as our educational project. We has done one before, but with disappointing telemetry. Bruce, KN4GDX, took the project on again for 2025. Payloads Planning and Testing Two amateur payloads were planned and prepared for the Field Day 2025 launch. Launch was planned for ~1500 on June 28 at the field day W4OVH site; and actually occurred at about 1530. The following description covers the planning, launch activities and tracking of the two payloads. The first payload, from Zachtek, was similar to the 2024 HAB payload launch, which worked while testing, but unfortunately did not … Read more >>