Yorkshire space enthusiast records Earth using balloon

BBC news and the Daily Mail newspaper have reported how a Yorkshire space enthusiast Robert Harrision, 2E0RJH managed to get high altitude pictures of the earth.

Robert 2E0RJH, a training instructor at the Wakefield & District Radio Society, developed the balloon-mounted camera project for just £500 and it took spectacular images of the earth from a height of 35km.

Read the BBC news report and video at
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/
west_yorkshire/8587749.stm

Daily Mail Story with picture of Richard Harrison 2E0RJH with what looks like an FT-817 and 70cm yagi
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1260323/
British-aerospace-enthusiast-takes-NASA-style-
photographs-using-helium-balloon-pocket-camera.html

The pictures taken can be seen at
http://www.robertharrison.org/

Wakefield & District Radio Society
http://www.wdrs.org.uk/

The APRS system developed by Radio Amateurs is now used to track many High Altitude Balloon (HAB) Test flights

APRS and Ballooning PowerPoint
http://www.eoss.org/aprs/APRSballoons2.ppt

Amateur Radio Automatic Packet Reporting System (APRS)
http://www.aprs.org/