Re: [Paparazzi-devel] High Altitude Glider

[Martin Mueller]

Hi Ben,

> We are planning to send a glider up on a weather balloon, and have it 
> fly itself down again. Coding autopilots is by no means our strong 
> point, and it needs to be very stable (otherwise we have a pretty 
> effective rock falling out of the sky).

Sounds like this: http://members.shaw.ca/sonde/

> Running the ground station via packet HAM radio wouldn't take much 
> modification would it?

Would you want to change the modulation or the hardware? Right now the
modulation is 4800 baud AFSK - works fine with a video link audio
channel but won't fit in a standard voice channel of a ham radio trx.
You could switch to 1200 baud if the filters are too narrow.

Martin