The Midland High School and Northeast Middle School Electronics and Wireless Communications Clubs will be launching a high altitude balloon carrying an experimental electronic payload and Amateur Radio tracking equipment. The payloads should reach near 100,000 feet before the balloon bursts and the payload parachutes back to earth. The team will be tracking and chasing […]
Category: Electronics Club
Thank You for Community Support
The Midland Amateur Radio Club (MARC) is thankful to the Midland Kiwanis Club, the Kiwassee Kiwanis Foundation, and the Midland Noon Rotary Club for their recent financial support of the middle school and high school electronics clubs. The clubs are part of MARC’s educational outreach program for youth in the greater Midland community which began in […]
May 3 Middle School Electronics Club Balloon Launch
We have just completed another year of introducing students to the world of electronics in our two school clubs. The middle school club ended with a successful High Altitude Balloon launch and recovery with a couple of firsts. This was the first time that the balloon ascended through the Jet Stream with a maximum horizontal velocity of 146 mph […]