{"id":5962,"date":"2011-12-15T11:16:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-15T00:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2011\/12\/15\/amateur-radio-balloon-crosses-the-pond-and-the-continent\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T19:56:55","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T09:56:55","slug":"amateur-radio-balloon-crosses-the-pond-and-the-continent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2011\/12\/15\/amateur-radio-balloon-crosses-the-pond-and-the-continent\/","title":{"rendered":"Amateur Radio Balloon Crosses The Pond (and the Continent)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/cbanner.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 142px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/cbanner.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5686313102619073970\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/transatlantic_balloon.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 196px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/transatlantic_balloon.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5686312984980322082\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size:130%;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Wow, congratulations to the <\/span><a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.californianearspaceproject.com\/\">California Near Space<\/a><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"> team. Their balloon flew from Silicon Valley, across the U.S., across the Atlantic and is now en route to Italy. As a former Azores APRS operator, I was pleased to see the APRS report from those islands. George, KJ6VU, of <\/span><a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hamstack.com\/\">Sierra Radio Systems<\/a><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">, was present for the launch. <\/span><br \/><\/span><br \/>Our book: &#8220;SolderSmoke &#8212; Global Adventures in Wireless Electronics&#8221;<a href=\"http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/book.htm\">http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/book.htm<\/a>Our coffee mugs, T-Shirts, bumper stickers: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/SolderSmoke\">http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/SolderSmoke<\/a>Our Book Store: <a href=\"http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/contracross-20\">http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/contracross-20<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow, congratulations to the California Near Space team. Their balloon flew from Silicon Valley, across the U.S., across the Atlantic and is now en route to Italy. As a former Azores APRS operator, I was pleased to see the APRS report from those islands. George, KJ6VU, of Sierra Radio Systems, was present for the launch. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2011\/12\/15\/amateur-radio-balloon-crosses-the-pond-and-the-continent\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Amateur Radio Balloon Crosses The Pond (and the Continent)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5963,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[164,151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-azores","category-balloon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5962"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5965,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5962\/revisions\/5965"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}