It's probably just as well I didn't plan to go this year, as I'm starting to get a cold that if it's as bad as my wife's will be pretty nasty by tomorrow....
Nearsys - 785-230-6866 or 785-230-7902 Taylor U : 260-241-0409 or 765-618-9151 EOSS: 303-378-3900 or 303-359-5660 NSV: 816-590-3154 or 816-468-7212 ORB:...
ATV on 439.25 will not fly....however, EOSS will be flying ATV on 426.25 MHz horizontal polarization....you can tell when the balloon is coming into range when...
Wow, that's cool. I too am baffled by the up and down flight. Looks like urban recovery for a lot of the flights. This is fascinating watching this unfold on...
Paul, Congrats on your marriage and your acceptance for a PhD program. KU has flown at least a couple of flights, but I think it's been 2-3 years since...
Friendship Request Block myYearbook Email | Mark Spam Wayne has added you as a friend Is Wayne your friend? Please respond or Wayne will think you said no :( ...
Thanks. I can understand the too much stuff to do thing. I was pretty lucky to sell my house as fast as I did (but not for as much as I wanted). I'm being to...
Hillsboro guys, The flight this weekend August 9th, The crossband repeater 445.800 / 147.560 is it a system that goes BOTH WAYS? IE: no signals nothing...
Many, many thanks for all the hard work for making GPSL08 a huge success! I had a great time and so did Mark & Carol. They are looking forward to GPSL09 as am...
GPSL ORB-24 APRS Failure Anaysis The APRS on ORB-24 failed on ascent. The last altitude reported was 41552 ft. The batteries are still in good shape as is the...
Congratulations to you and Rachel - on both counts. I'm sure KNSP is dee-lighted to feast the return of its Beloved Founder, and hope you've left TVNSP in...
Hi Harry, Hmmm ... it's possible that there was some RF getting into the low-level sigs on the TT3 PCB. It has a very puny ground trace distribution. I ...
Harry, I had this failure happened to the second flight of ARSAT (this was around 2003), when we were doing payload integration test on the ground. Somehow TT3...
Harry, I had the same thing happen last year but it happened the night before the flight. I thought that PIC's flash had given up. I reflashed it and have...
I reprogrammed the PIC and the tones are not what they should be, they are lower, almost like 300 baud, but not. The 300 baud box is not checked. I replaced...
Ron brought to my attenion that my digital camcorder recorded a balloon. From the timing and sun's position in the video, it took place at 92,900 feet and an...
The balloon was a little above the horizon, but at that altitude, the horizon is around 4 or 5 degrees below horizontal. I wish my camera had a scale or I was...
Based on FindU reports: W0NSV-11 was at 111 degrees at 85,000 ft at that time WB8ELK-11 was at 121 degrees at 92,000 ft KB9ZNZ-1 and KB9ZNZ-11 were on the...
I have a short video on the ORB post flight page. Famous last words for some of our recoveries! http://members.cox.net/hhm_74445/orb/orb24/postflight.html 73...
No Sir! The gentleman was kind enough to lend us a 24ft ext ladder and with a couple entendable poles I carry, duct taped together, that's all we needed. ...
hI ALL, hEY A QUESTION FOR YA, Oops caplock,, ok anyway,, To read the data string from a typical GPS like the Garmnin hockey puck. A processor, what do...
Keith has started a link with GPSL pics here: http://nearspaceventures.com/gpsl2008/GPSLPics/gpslpics.html. He is still working on it, so there is some editing...
