[aprssig] K6RPT-11 trans ocean balloons...

[Dave]

There was a documentary about that a while back on UK TV.

Dave G0WBX.

> 
>   Few know that just like this, in WWII the Japanese sent
>   paper-balloon bombs across the Pacific.  It wasn't publicized at the
>   time or really afterword. I don't recall the altitude, but they had
>   two altimeters.  One released gas when the altitude got too high and
>   the other dropped ballast bags when it got too low. I don't recall
>   what the bomb-drop trigger was. If I recall, they launched something
>   just short of 10,000.  I think a few hundred were known to make it
>   all up and down the North American west coast.  One was known to
>   make it as far east as Michigan.  They watched and tried to shoot
>   them down off the west coast.  Six people died on a church outing
>   when they stumbled upon one in the Pacific Northwest and fiddled
>   with it and the bomb blew up.
> 
>   Battery's UP to (V1F6) 4.85Volts.
> 
> -- 
> Steve, K9DCI
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>  73, Steve, K9DCI  
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