{"id":9609,"date":"2023-02-17T10:29:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-16T23:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2023\/02\/17\/ham-radio-pico-balloons-feared-shot-down-by-usaf\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T18:02:26","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T08:02:26","slug":"ham-radio-pico-balloons-feared-shot-down-by-usaf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2023\/02\/17\/ham-radio-pico-balloons-feared-shot-down-by-usaf\/","title":{"rendered":"Ham Radio Pico Balloons Feared Shot Down by USAF"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/balloon20track.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"733\" data-original-width=\"1302\" height=\"243\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/balloon20track.png\" width=\"432\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><b>The Aviation Week article below helped to confirm some of my worst fears about the balloon thing. For a long I&#8217;ve wanted to launch one of these balloons. Recently I&#8217;ve been thinking about doing it from SolderSmoke Shack South (in the Dominican Republic &#8212; they are BIG on party balloons down there!). <\/b><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/aviationweek.com\/defense-space\/aircraft-propulsion\/hobby-clubs-missing-balloon-feared-shot-down-usaf?fbclid=IwAR0ra3U4QPlzrNiVDNXz1UzQdDNfFUpccrQIRhVaCKkrZWHIPXQ0hwxEVKI\"><b>https:\/\/aviationweek.com\/defense-space\/aircraft-propulsion\/hobby-clubs-missing-balloon-feared-shot-down-usaf?fbclid=IwAR0ra3U4QPlzrNiVDNXz1UzQdDNfFUpccrQIRhVaCKkrZWHIPXQ0hwxEVKI<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Check out Hans&#8217;s site about the circumnavigators: <\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.qrp-labs.com\/circumnavigators.html\"><b>http:\/\/www.qrp-labs.com\/circumnavigators.html<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Aviation Week article below helped to confirm some of my worst fears about the balloon thing. For a long I&#8217;ve wanted to launch one of these balloons. Recently I&#8217;ve been thinking about doing it from SolderSmoke Shack South (in the Dominican Republic &#8212; they are BIG on party balloons down there!). https:\/\/aviationweek.com\/defense-space\/aircraft-propulsion\/hobby-clubs-missing-balloon-feared-shot-down-usaf?fbclid=IwAR0ra3U4QPlzrNiVDNXz1UzQdDNfFUpccrQIRhVaCKkrZWHIPXQ0hwxEVKI Check out &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2023\/02\/17\/ham-radio-pico-balloons-feared-shot-down-by-usaf\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ham Radio Pico Balloons Feared Shot Down by USAF&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9610,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[151,19,198],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-balloon","category-dominican-republic","category-summers-hans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9609","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9609"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9611,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9609\/revisions\/9611"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}