NY2014 Posted July 23, 2014 Share Posted July 23, 2014 I'm looking at launching a weather balloon next week and wanted to know if I could list the GPS position of the landing and get help from this community in recovering the payload. It will most likely land in Southern VT and be hanging by the parachute up in a tree. Here is a link to a similar launch that was done by someone else several years ago. Have others listed their balloon payload recovery site as a Geocache in the past? I'm new to this so any help and info is appreciated. Thanks! http://space.1337arts.com/ Quote Link to comment
+Bear and Ragged Posted July 23, 2014 Share Posted July 23, 2014 I'm looking at launching a weather balloon next week and wanted to know if I could list the GPS position of the landing and get help from this community in recovering the payload. It will most likely land in Southern VT and be hanging by the parachute up in a tree. Here is a link to a similar launch that was done by someone else several years ago. Have others listed their balloon payload recovery site as a Geocache in the past? I'm new to this so any help and info is appreciated. Thanks! http://space.1337arts.com/ You can't list it as a Geocache. You may be able to get the local cachers to look for it though. Quote Link to comment
+cerberus1 Posted July 23, 2014 Share Posted July 23, 2014 I'm looking at launching a weather balloon next week and wanted to know if I could list the GPS position of the landing and get help from this community in recovering the payload. It will most likely land in Southern VT and be hanging by the parachute up in a tree. Here is a link to a similar launch that was done by someone else several years ago. Have others listed their balloon payload recovery site as a Geocache in the past? I'm new to this so any help and info is appreciated. Thanks! http://space.1337arts.com/ Can't list a recovery site as a geocache, because geocaches (the link) are containers with at minimum a log inside. Permission, cache permanence and proximity guidelines probably wouldn't be met either. However, I've seen another use the site for recovery. Not sure how it panned out for them. Quote Link to comment
+kunarion Posted July 24, 2014 Share Posted July 24, 2014 (edited) I'm looking at launching a weather balloon next week and wanted to know if I could list the GPS position of the landing and get help from this community in recovering the payload. It will most likely land in Southern VT When you get the coordinates, you could start a thread in a regional forum: http://forums.Groundspeak.com/GC/index.php?showforum=50 Or maybe it would be best to reply here, and have a Moderator move this thread to the appropriate forum. Edited July 24, 2014 by kunarion Quote Link to comment
+Chief301 Posted July 24, 2014 Share Posted July 24, 2014 Apart from looking in the regional Groundspeak forum, you might check to see if there are any active Geocaching Facebook groups in your area. That would be a quick way to make contact with the local community. As already stated, you can't list the recovery site as a Geocache, but I wouldn't be surprised if you could get some of the local cachers to take on the challenge. Quote Link to comment
+Great Scott! Posted July 24, 2014 Share Posted July 24, 2014 (edited) I'm looking at launching a weather balloon next week and wanted to know if I could list the GPS position of the landing and get help from this community in recovering the payload. It will most likely land in Southern VT and be hanging by the parachute up in a tree. Here is a link to a similar launch that was done by someone else several years ago. Have others listed their balloon payload recovery site as a Geocache in the past? I'm new to this so any help and info is appreciated. Thanks! http://space.1337arts.com/ Can't list a recovery site as a geocache, because geocaches (the link) are containers with at minimum a log inside. Permission, cache permanence and proximity guidelines probably wouldn't be met either. However, I've seen another use the site for recovery. Not sure how it panned out for them. It sure is possible to get a recovery site listed as a geocache. See: Event Horizon! for the event and PINELAND: Sputnik 2010: A Geocache to get you to the recovery site. The weather balloon had a flare tube geocache attached to it. We followed the online updated coordinates to where the weather balloon landed. The landowner was very gracious in allowing the weather balloon and geocache to remain in place for others to find and log. Edited July 24, 2014 by Great Scott! Quote Link to comment
+Chief301 Posted July 24, 2014 Share Posted July 24, 2014 OK, I guess there is a way.....I was thinking more along the lines of a Traditional cache. Where there's a will, eh? Quote Link to comment
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