Hi Joe, The mantra that I must repeat to myself when the alarm goes off at zero- dark-30 every launch morning is, "I do this for recreation. I do this for ..."...
I'm passing on this Balloon Launch Announcement for Bill Brown WB8ELK as he is out of reach of an internet connection: - Barry N4MSJ Launch site: Perryton, TX ...
Hi Jay, I take it that the gas balloon launch isn't scheduled until Monday 10/8 evening about sunset, correct? 73 de Mike W5VSI, EOSS ... -- Mike Manes...
Hi Mike,, Yeah to me it looks like evening launch America's Challenge Gas Balloon Race Launch presented by Matheson Tri-Gas Balloon Fiesta Park 10/8 6:00pm -...
The gas balloonists like to launch at sunset to delay having to vent gas for as long as possible. Solar heating during the next day can take 'em above the...
Hi everyone: My wife Angie and I took and passed out General license exams today. :) We are feeling pretty good about that and wanted to share the news with...
Congratulations to you and Angie on your new HF privileges! I haven't gotten around to finishing up the GPSL disc...it ended up on the back burner because of...
... take 'em above the open gondola altitude limit of 15K' MSL, ... flights have been made to over 50,000 feet. The America's Challenge gas balloon pilots,...
Hey, congratulations to you and Angie! Nicely done, folks. Now I expect you'll be budgeting some of your balloonacy bucks to get on HF, right? Hope your QTH...
i would like a ziped copy too........ kc5wxc ... From: Mike Manes To: Brek Brixius KC0YOE - BUNS Cc: GPSL@yahoogroups.com ; EOSS membership reflector Sent:...
http://www.balloonfiesta.com/Gas/tracking/ Interesting race tactics at work already. Two balloons are sticking close to ABQ this morning, presumably to catch...
AC-3 cancelled prior to launch. Also, there was a note last night around 11pm that they were having trouble updating the balloonfiesta.com tracking website....
No, that thing about the tracking was posted either at the top of the tracking page or was buried in one of the press releases - I can't remember which. End of...
Some of the teams that opted to go up the western slope of the Rockies ended up landing in some pretty rough-looking territory. Not sure how they're gonna get...
thanks that must be whats coming thru now.......... 73's kc5wxc ... From: Mike Manes To: GPSL@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2007 7:32 PM ...
De nada, Wayne BTW, plain ol' ASCII text really saves a lot of I'net email bandwidth. 11K to send 8 words is, ummm, a tad bloated. 73 de Mike W5VSI ... -- Mike...
Forwarded from the QCWA e-mail list. -- Ralph W0RPK Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 04:41:55 -0400 From: Richard Rucker <rrucker@...> Subject: [QCWA] Elmering...
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Last report in FindU is from about 1215Z, but they're in a sparse area for APRS. I was amazed to see they were still airborne this morning - I figured they...
Looks like AC-1 has finally landed in Saskatchewan after 1054 miles of flight. Betcha they're kinda tuckered out, eh? 783 de Mike W5VSI ... -- Mike Manes...
Could very likely have been one of the 70 or so NWS radiosondes that the NWS launches twice daily all over CONUS. Based on your 0040Z observation, it coulda...
Gene, How have you been? Just wanted to drop you a quick note that Ryan and I will be doing a JOTA event at Camp Lakota in Woodstock next weekend. It will be...
Hi Joe, I think you're right about that one going "superpressure", and if so, then considering that party balloons are filled nearly to capacity, then it would...
The party balloon superpressure experiment is something a couple of us here are considering soon....basically a whole bunch of the larger mylar party balloons...
ORB-1 thru ORB-4 were 4 foot party balloons with simple can oscillators, so we did not get real-time altitude. I did however get time and approx. elev. in deg....
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