N5NTG | 
04 1st, 2012| 
Yesterday morning, Saturday, March 31st, Hams helped students & teachers from the Lehman High School Radio Club launch a small weather balloon from the school, about 2 miles ENE of Kyle, Texas, running APRS using the Call Sign of NN5RR-11. (Track it here online) It landed a few hours later at 1.3 miles East bearing 76° from Martindale, in Caldwell County, Texas. Raw tracking info can be viewed here.
The weather cooperated for an 9am launch of a small test balloon on Saturday morning. It was picked up by digipeaters and I-Gates and appeared on aprs.fi. Ross Russell, NN5RR, was the instigator of the flight, and pre-flight planning was shared via the HCHams Yahoo group.
Because of the risk of losing the payload for this test flight, they kept the cost down by using the Byonics MT-RTG TNC/2m transmitter combo and a cheap HD camcorder.
