High school science projects are unusual to say the least. Projects usually consist of the ‘rock candy’ experiment to the ‘we can change the world’ presentation. There are a few that stand out in ingenuity and innovation and this student project is no less exemplary in its simplicity. While doing a class project that was to gather data with the use of a high altitude balloon, a student by the name of Scott decided to include a homemade transmitter with it. Using a 74HC240 octal buffer is using to amplify the signal (Morse code) from an ATTiny44a with a 29MHz oscillator, he was able to send and receive a signal from over 200 miles away. Scott say’s in his jubilation that, “I’m completely amazed at how well the transmitter/receiver worked! For only a few milliwatts, I was able to track that thing all the way from takeoff to landing in Gainesville, FL a few hundred miles away.” Not too shabby for a high school project.