<div dir="ltr"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:medium"><tbody style="box-sizing:border-box"><tr style="box-sizing:border-box"><td style="box-sizing:border-box"><div id="gmail-story" style="box-sizing:border-box;width:618.4px;font-size:16px;height:auto;float:left"><h1 style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:16pt"><div><img src="cid:ii_kcozvwyq0" alt="image.png" width="472" height="370"><br></div><div><div><img src="cid:ii_kcozy6by1" alt="image.png" width="472" height="294"><br></div></div></h1><h1 style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:16pt">Amateur radio operators send balloon around the globe</h1><p style="box-sizing:border-box"><strong style="box-sizing:border-box">Peter Vogel VE7AFV</strong> writes in The B.C. Catholic about radio amateurs who build balloons carrying amateur radio transmitters and fly them around the world<br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box">He describes how <strong style="box-sizing:border-box">Bill Brown WB8ELK</strong> and a small team of ham radio enthusiasts aimed to build and launch a radio-equipped balloon that might possibly circumnavigate the planet, broadcasting its location every 10 minutes or so.<br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box">On their 9th attempt the balloon, following the jet stream, moved across the Atlantic, Europe, the Middle East, northern India, China, Japan, and finally the Pacific.<br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box">Read the full article at<br style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="https://bccatholic.ca/voices/peter-vogel/amateur-radio-operators-send-balloon-around-the-globe" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,51,102);text-decoration-line:none">https://bccatholic.ca/voices/peter-vogel/amateur-radio-operators-send-balloon-around-the-globe</a></p></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div>