{"id":4750,"date":"2019-07-16T16:21:01","date_gmt":"2019-07-16T20:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/?p=4750"},"modified":"2019-07-16T17:23:25","modified_gmt":"2019-07-16T21:23:25","slug":"newly-licensed-club-member-flies-high-altitude-balloon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/?p=4750","title":{"rendered":"Newly Licensed Club Member Flies High Altitude Balloon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Adria Updike (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rwu.edu\/academics\/schools-and-colleges\/fssns\/faculty\/adria-c-updike\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Roger Williams University<\/a>), newly licensed NCRC member KC1LOK, and her student Jenna Lowe, constructed a high altitude balloon and launched it near Pittsfield MA yesterday.\u00a0 The balloon included a APRS transmitter so that they could track it.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4751\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/RWBalloonPath.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4751\" class=\"size-large wp-image-4751\" src=\"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/RWBalloonPath-1024x911.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"520\" srcset=\"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/RWBalloonPath-1024x911.png 1024w, https:\/\/w1sye.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/RWBalloonPath-300x267.png 300w, https:\/\/w1sye.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/RWBalloonPath-768x683.png 768w, https:\/\/w1sye.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/RWBalloonPath-337x300.png 337w, https:\/\/w1sye.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/RWBalloonPath.png 1416w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4751\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Path of Adria and Jenna&#8217;s Balloon from Pittsfield MA to Stonington CT<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Adria said &#8220;We flew the balloon yesterday &#8211; launched it from Pittsfield MA, and it landed a bit further south than we anticipated, in the water just a few feet from land in Stonington CT. We managed to retrieve it from the last APRS position it sent out before landing in the water (upside down!&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>University members have a tradition of including their namesake Roger Williams in photographs taken in unusual locations, so the balloon flight would not be complete without a photo of Roger Williams taken at about 68,000 feet altitude!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4752\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/RWonStick.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4752\" class=\"size-large wp-image-4752\" src=\"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/RWonStick-1024x575.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"328\" srcset=\"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/RWonStick-1024x575.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/w1sye.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/RWonStick-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/w1sye.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/RWonStick-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/w1sye.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/RWonStick-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4752\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Roger Williams admires the view from 68,000 feet up!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Fantastic application of Ham Radio &#8212; Congratulations to Adria and Jenna!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Adria Updike (Roger Williams University), newly licensed NCRC member KC1LOK, and her student Jenna Lowe, constructed a high altitude balloon and launched it near Pittsfield MA yesterday.\u00a0 The balloon included a APRS transmitter so that they could track it. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/?p=4750\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-aprs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4750"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4754,"href":"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4750\/revisions\/4754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}