FW: [MLB-WIRELESS] helium balloons anyone?

[Shane Chubb]

-----Original Message-----
From: Shane Chubb 
Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 3:42 PM
To: 'Rowan Crowe'
Subject: RE: [MLB-WIRELESS] helium balloons anyone?


I had a theory on this, which was to connect the balloons to the ground
via small tubes rather than ropes and then to pump the helium up these
tubes. so long as the tubes were of a light enough material then the
helium contained in the tubes would make them virtually weightless.
Meaning you would only need to provide balloons big enough to hold the
AP and associated equipment up.
My other thought was that if you had this sort of setup, you could setup
like a hot air balloon affect where you pipe gas up and ignite a flam at
the end into a balloon in order to keep it up.  that way if you ran out
of gas you could exchange the cylinders from the ground without having
to bring the whole system down so to speak.

Shane

-----Original Message-----
From: Rowan Crowe [mailto:rowan at sensation.net.au]
Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 3:36 PM
To: melbwireless at wireless.org.au
Subject: Re: [MLB-WIRELESS] helium balloons anyone?


On Thu, 12 Dec 2002, evilbunny wrote:

> Hello melbwireless,
> 
>   I think people have kidded about launching helium balloons before,
>   but apparently someone took notice :)
> 
>   http://www.sydneywireless.com/article.php?sid=537

This one is definitely better than a business plan I saw a while ago - a
company who were going to fly (standard) aircraft in circles 24/7 to
provide wireless connectivity. ;)

I wonder if an AP attached to several helium balloons (and tethered to
the
ground) would work for temporary setups, eg field days. I guess the
weight
of the cable to the ground would be significant...

Cheers.


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Rowan Crowe - Melbourne, Australia
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