Envelope-to: dave@picks.force9.co.uk Delivery-date: Sat, 20 Aug 2005 20:40:53 +0100 Received: by pih-mxcore09.plus.net with spam-scanned (PlusNet MXCore v2.00) id 1E6ZD3-0000a0-5j for dave@picks.force9.co.uk; Sat, 20 Aug 2005 20:40:53 +0100 Received: from post.thorcom.com ([193.82.116.20]) by pih-mxcore09.plus.net with esmtp (PlusNet MXCore v2.00) id 1E6ZD2-0000Zl-WC for dave@picks.force9.co.uk; Sat, 20 Aug 2005 20:40:53 +0100 Received: from majordom by post.thorcom.com with local (Exim 4.14) id 1E6ZDw-0008HK-BS for rs_out_1@blacksheep.org; Sat, 20 Aug 2005 20:41:48 +0100 Received: from [193.82.59.130] (helo=relay2.thorcom.net) by post.thorcom.com with esmtp (Exim 4.14) id 1E6ZDv-0008HB-8T for rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org; Sat, 20 Aug 2005 20:41:47 +0100 Received: from ams-iport-1.cisco.com ([144.254.224.140]) by relay2.thorcom.net with esmtp (Exim 4.51) id 1E6ZhI-0005Hi-9W for rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org; Sat, 20 Aug 2005 21:12:10 +0100 Received: from ams-core-1.cisco.com (144.254.224.150) by ams-iport-1.cisco.com with ESMTP; 20 Aug 2005 21:41:36 +0200 Received: from cisco.com (mrwint.cisco.com [64.103.71.48]) by ams-core-1.cisco.com (8.12.10/8.12.6) with ESMTP id j7KJfWVP027432 for ; Sat, 20 Aug 2005 21:41:33 +0200 (MEST) Received: from zen.co.uk (ams-clip-vpn-dhcp49.cisco.com [10.61.64.49]) by cisco.com (8.8.8-Cisco List Logging/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA29210 for ; Sat, 20 Aug 2005 20:41:31 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <4307876B.5000404@zen.co.uk> Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2005 20:41:31 +0100 From: Stewart Bryant User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org References: <002c01c5a5a9$a4df97a0$30e4fc3e@l8p8y6> In-Reply-To: <002c01c5a5a9$a4df97a0$30e4fc3e@l8p8y6> Subject: Re: LF: met balloon Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes Sender: owner-rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org Precedence: bulk Reply-To: rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org X-Listname: rsgb_lf_group X-SA-Exim-Rcpt-To: rs_out_1@blacksheep.org X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No; SAEximRunCond expanded to false X-PN-SpamFiltered: by PlusNet MXCore (v2.00) A friend of mine had a lot of success with (new) 1m dia latex ballons which a readily available. These are much lighter than met balloons. He got about a week out of each filling. However he was only running half-wave verticals on 80m. - Stewart G3YSX hamilton mal wrote: > Hi All > I got a couple of met balloons a while back and decided to inflate > them for LF airborne activities but it was a big > disappointment, although new they seem to be porous and the gas > escaped within a couple of hours. Perhaps met balloons are porous so > that when they achieve the object they deflate and drop to earth in a > short period of time. > Where can I get a big ex govt barrage balloon? > 73 de Mal/G3KEV >