Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/05/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Philfo, Indeed this one has a hard shell.I wonder if it is ment to be reused or that the drogue is just there to prevent injury. It has a stiff steel wire sticking out below it.Suggesting just the opposite. Maybe it will spear an elephant and continue it,s readings that way. Where would you find 1080 hPa at 90 degrees C? best JES On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 11:22 PM, Philip Forrest < photo.forrest@earthlink.net> wrote: > That is indeed a radiosnde. If it has a cellulose-based covering, it > will probably dissolve in seawater within a few hours. If it has > plastic, then it's possibly a recoverable device. The disposables are > worth about $270 each brand new. They have a GPS transmitter as well > in order to measure winds. Once they hit their max height and the > balloon bursts, they will broadcast a terminate signal to the station > monitoring it so the operator and the weather guessers have a mB height > reference point and time in regard to where the measurement stopped. > I was an upper-air specialist in the Navy. I miss that job kind of. > Highest I ever got my balloon was just over 89,000 feet over the > Indian Ocean. I think the record for a US naval vessel at sea was > 92kft. The latitude has a lot to do with burst height as it is > significantly "thinner" the farther away from the equator the balloon > is. > Good times. > > PhilFo > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >