Mobile Webcam

[bobgo2728]

OK Gang here is a deal that I need some help with. I work for a radio station and we want to put a wireless webcam of some kind or a cam that will work with a mobile card from Sprint or something. We want to mount this on a balloon and launch it and have it be connected to the web the entire time if possible. If not just have it hit and miss.

[sultan_emerr]

http://www.mobile-mir.com/en/MobileWebCam.php

[bobgo2728]

Is this easy to do? I mean could we get a simple track phone or something like that and this will work? I mean this is going to have to last a while and we want it to be cool.

http://www.mobile-mir.com/en/MobileWebCam.php

[Bubba Bob]

Tracfone doesnt offer data services, and youd need unlimited data. Otherwise that looks like itd work.

Or

Probably be fairly easy to send up an older, cheap laptop + web cam + mobile card.

When you say balloon, is this a manned balloon? Is the equipment coming back or is it disposable?

[bobgo2728]

Unmanned balloon. The equipment might come back, depending on where it lands. We mainly need some type of a small GPS unit to use satilite or something other than cell for it to report back its position to us back at the station. Also, we would like to have a webcam that could use cell data and or min as we could probably get it sponsored but with rual USA it is likely that cell might not work, but we can try anyways. We just need something that is cheap and easy to setup and that is proven to work.

Tracfone doesnt offer data services, and youd need unlimited data. Otherwise that looks like itd work.

Or

Probably be fairly easy to send up an older, cheap laptop + web cam + mobile card.

When you say balloon, is this a manned balloon? Is the equipment coming back or is it disposable?