[SCCC] Helium balloon source?

Bruce Horn bhorn at hornucopia.com
Sat Oct 13 20:48:58 EDT 2007


Hi Kurt,

At 10:07 AM 10/13/2007, W6ph at aol.com wrote:
>Does anyone know a source for helium balloons like those that car dealerships
>use?  Thinking ahead for a balloon supported vertical for the Dec 160m
>contest from a cabin in the desert.

When I last put up my balloon-supported 160m vertical, I used three 
3-foot balloons available from party supply stores. Two were 
sufficient to the lift the wire, one was for redundancy.

73 de Bruce, WA7BNM   (bhorn at hornucopia.com) 




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