Ham Searches Hills for Balloons, Tracker that Circumnavigated Globe:

LANDAFF — There are many mysteries and secrets in the town’s high hills, including most recently the whereabouts of two silver mylar balloons and the homemade electronic tracker they carried around the world. Mike Hojnowski, an amateur radio enthusiast and systems engineer at Cornell University, launched the balloons and tracker at 12:58 p.m. Oct. 19 from Rhodes Hall at the Ithaca, N.Y. school. Ten days later, he determined that they had crashed here in Landaff, on a west-facing slope and at an elevation of between 1,000 and 1,300 feet after encountering a storm. Hojnowski has been back twice to Landaff to look for the tracker. If he recovers the tracker, he would be only one of seven radio hobbyists who’ve circumnavigated the globe with a homemade tracker, and the only one who actually recovered the device.

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