FW: [MLB-WIRELESS] helium balloons anyone?

[evilbunny]

Hello Shane,

I think the helium idea is a little safer then a naked flame...

mmmm Armageddon comes to mind, with massive fireballs in the night sky
:)

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Thursday, December 12, 2002, 3:42:37 PM, you wrote:



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


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

SC> Shane

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


SC> 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

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

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

SC> Cheers.


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