Amateur Radio Balloon crosses the Atlantic

You have no idea... Like I said... do it yourself if it is so easy. It must look easy from your high perch up on that ivory tower you are looking down upon us all.
Bill R.
N5VEI

 

101.35 does NOT apply

I'm sorry, but you should have quoted the part of the rules at the beginning:

101.1 Applicability.

(a) This part prescribes rules governing the operation in the
United States, of the following:

[...]

(4) Except as provided for in �101.7, any unmanned free balloon
that-

(i) Carries a payload package that weighs more than four pounds and
has a weight/size ratio of more than three ounces per square inch
on any surface of the package, determined by dividing the total
weight in ounces of the payload package by the area in square
inches of its smallest surface;

(ii) Carries a payload package that weighs more than six pounds;

(iii) Carries a payload, of two or more packages, that weighs more
than 12 pounds; or

(iv) Uses a rope or other device for suspension of the payload that
requires an impact force of more than 50 pounds to separate the
suspended payload from the balloon.

(b) For the purposes of this part, a gyroglider attached to a
vehicle on the surface of the earth is considered to be a kite.

[...]

101.7 Hazardous operations.

(a) No person may operate any moored balloon, kite, unmanned
rocket, or unmanned free balloon in a manner that creates a hazard
to other persons, or their property.

(b) No person operating any moored balloon, kite, unmanned rocket,
or unmanned free balloon may allow an object to be dropped
therefrom, if such action creates a hazard to other persons or
their property.

This balloon appears to have been UNDER 4 pounds. In that case 101.35 DOES NOT APPLY. End of story.

--KB4TYE
--NC Near Space Project - http://ncnearspace.org/