{"id":14320,"date":"2025-06-03T17:56:36","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T12:26:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnsonfrancis.org\/techworld\/?p=14320"},"modified":"2025-06-03T17:56:38","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T12:26:38","slug":"let-us-check-amateur-radio-pico-balloon-tracking-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnsonfrancis.org\/techworld\/let-us-check-amateur-radio-pico-balloon-tracking-site\/","title":{"rendered":"Let us check amateur radio pico balloon tracking site!"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8X3p6afiCQ8?si=Ojh8d-6fMg6nWn52\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last year I had posted about <a href=\"https:\/\/johnsonfrancis.org\/techworld\/pico-balloons-in-amateur-radio\/\">Pico Balloons in Amateur Radio<\/a>, which even circumnavigate the Earth several times! Heard from VU2TUM that one pico balloon is near his location. So I thought of checking out <a href=\"https:\/\/amateur.sondehub.org\/\">https:\/\/amateur.sondehub.org\/<\/a> for the location of that balloon. I was quite happy to see the AB5SS Pico Balloon on its way near our capital city! Many other pico balloons were also seen being tracked by the website. But there were none near my location. AB5SS Pico Balloon was about 2000 km from my region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year I had posted about Pico Balloons in Amateur Radio, which even circumnavigate the Earth several times! Heard from VU2TUM that one pico balloon is near his location. So I thought of checking out https:\/\/amateur.sondehub.org\/ for the location of that balloon. I was quite happy to see the AB5SS Pico Balloon on its way [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14321,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-amateur-radio-ham-radio"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Let us check amateur radio pico balloon tracking site! - Johnson&#039;s Techworld<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/johnsonfrancis.org\/techworld\/let-us-check-amateur-radio-pico-balloon-tracking-site\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Let us check amateur radio pico balloon tracking site! - Johnson&#039;s Techworld\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Last year I had posted about Pico Balloons in Amateur Radio, which even circumnavigate the Earth several times! 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