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Ham Searches Hills for Balloons, Tracker that Circumnavigated Globe:

Posted: 23 Nov 2016 04:39 PM PST
http://www.eham.net/articles/38084


LANDAFF -- There are many mysteries and secrets in the town's high hills,
including most recently the whereabouts of two silver mylar balloons and
the homemade electronic tracker they carried around the world. Mike
Hojnowski, an amateur radio enthusiast and systems engineer at Cornell
University, launched the balloons and tracker at 12:58 p.m. Oct. 19 from
Rhodes Hall at the Ithaca, N.Y. school. Ten days later, he determined that
they had crashed here in Landaff, on a west-facing slope and at an
elevation of between 1,000 and 1,300 feet after encountering a storm.
Hojnowski has been back twice to Landaff to look for the tracker. If he
recovers the tracker, he would be only one of seven radio hobbyists who've
circumnavigated the globe with a homemade tracker, and the only one who
actually recovered the device.