Australian student and foundation radio amateur Mark Jessop VK5FDRK, who was staying in the United Kingdom, acheived a new record when his balloon reached a height of 40,575 metres. It was launched from Cambridge and carried a 434.650 MHz transmitter, .
Mark VK5FDRK acheived a UK record and was close to the all-time international amateur altitude maximum. He is now returning to Australia and for the Scout Jamboree On The Air (JOTA), October 15-16, he will be involved in the launch of an Amateur Radio repeater up to 30 km, which Scouts around Australia will be able to talk through.
Read all about the UK record breaking flight at
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/08/23/balloon_record/
Mark Jessop VK5FDRK & Adrian Snell VK5ZSN Ham Radio Blog http://blog.darklomax.org/
RF Head – HAB & Ham Radio Experimentation http://rfhead.net/
Project Horus http://projecthorus.org/