[chbot] Sundays balloon-adventure, report please

[André Geldenhuis]

On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 9:25 PM, Chris Hellyar <chris at trash.co.nz> wrote:

>  900gm is good going for all that gear without getting very specialised,
> especially with two cameras in the mix.
>
> Without digging out all my olds notes my weight budget was 750gm and the
> 3W TX which was the guts of a miniature handheld was about 80gm, so 80x the
> weight of your TX!! :-).
>
> I was only planning one camera but at the time I was having problems
> finding a tracker/GPS that would work at high altitude and something else
> shiny caught my eye...  I've still got the bits in a box somewhere.
>

That's a good weight :)  I really recommend the Venus GPS units, I really
like them and they do work about 60f feet.  There is also a high dynamics
firmware available for them which I am keen to test out on a rocket some
time.

Andre
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