New GPS-R hunt

[rpaske]

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Once the balloons transit the state’s stratosphere, the electronic gear would be jettisoned remotely and fall to the earth with a parachute.

The electronic equipment, about the size of a toaster, would be recovered through the use of a global positioning satellite device.

“We’d pay some guy a bounty, put in a new battery pack and send it off again,” Knoblach said.

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Kind of like the idea of Geocaching for bounty!

[greyhounder]

I’ve heard about that. Sounds like it could be fun!

Bec

[Bushwhacking Queen]

It’d be a great “moving” cache.

[jthorson]

North Dakota Declares War on Minnesota!
Bombing begins this summer.

[kent1915]

I know they have been doing this in southern states for about a year. You can log onto a site, find ballon packages that fell around your area, and if you are the first to post your intent to find it, you are given X amount of time to recover it for the given bounty. If you can’t do it in that time, it is no longer yours alone to seek, it is open to anyone, first come, first serve, and you get the $.

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