Hobby Club’s Missing Balloon Feared Shot Down By USAF | Aviation Week Network
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Although the club is not pointing fingers, there are suspicions among other prominent members of the small, pico-ballooning enthusiasts community.

Rest easy fellow patriots, the Northern Illinois Bottlecap Balloon Brigade will no longer be terrorizing our skies with their $12 pico balloons after being annihilated by our big, beautiful $400,000 sidewinder missiles.

    • PorkrollPosadist [he/him, they/them]
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      2 years ago

      Get a ham radio license (requires study, but only costs $15 every 10 years in the US), learn how APRS, works, and attach a transmitter to a balloon. Along the way of learning this stuff, you'll encounter various groups who do it.