A friend of mine wants to put up a vertical in his back garden (actually to operate on 160m), and is thinking of using a met balloon to hold it aloft. I know that there has been some experience on th
1) Where can you get a met balloon in the UK. Are there any viable alternatives. I would also like to know a source of small meteorological ('met.') balloons of, say, 700 mm diameter, that have good
My experience with met balloons is that they have little lifting power. I tested a met balloon which was 1 metre across and filled with helium. It really had little useful lift - its own weight is to