Skip, We were looking along similar lines and ran across some ham clubs who were working with schools on high flying baloons using amateur radio to transmit down the baloon data, video etc. They would go out on an early Saturday morning and run it all like a space shot. Take a look at <http://www.ksu.edu/humec/knsp/> and <http://simsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/>. Frank Gentges K0BRA