2008 ARHAB Flights ... 1] 15Jan08 UTARC SNOX III TN Univ of Tennessee ARC 2] 17Jan08 BASE-20 IN DePauw Univ 3] 21Jan08 HARP-57 IN...
Ralph Wallio, W0RPK
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Jan 1, 2009 2:38 pm
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167 flights, pretty cool. Paul ... -- Onwards and Upwards, Paul 167 flights, pretty cool. Paul On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 8:38 AM, Ralph Wallio, W0RPK <...
Office Depot in Topeka is selling an instant cell phone charger by Energizer for $2.00. That's 90% off. The great thing about it is that it comes with two...
167 flights, about 5 were plastic (zero pressure, solar, and super pressure). THANKS AGAIN to Ralph for keeping the stats on this sport! I'm wondering, what...
I connected 4.5V to the charger PCB and only got 6V out. It looks like it only outputs 6V. I did notice the voltage flucuating, perhaps because there's no...
167 flights, about 5 were plastic (zero pressure, solar, and super pressure). THANKS AGAIN to Ralph for keeping the stats on this sport! I'm wondering, what...
While off on a Google rabbit trail I started looking into Hellschrieber. Has anyone posted to a website some details on beacons, esp. those encoding a GPS...
Search this forum and the other Yahoo ARHAB ballooning forums (Balloon_sked, Balloonatics, Ballooning, etc.) for posts from WB8ELK. Bill has been doing this...
I'm beginning to play with PICAXE's abd the radio sold by Sparkfun. This is what I believe Bill is playing with. Paul ... -- Onwards and Upwards, Paul...
I was hoping for a webpage with some more details (schematic, block diagrams, etc). But I imagine it's a little like documenting some of my balloon stuff -...
Check out this site... http://web.mit.edu/bgelb/www/balloon/hfbeacon/ I would bet that they would have some info for you if you write the guys that put up the...
Hi Mark, I'm working on the latest version of my Hellscreiber Balloon board....it also does CW, RTTY and DominoEX. It's working great on my workbench and now...
Bill, Thanks - looking forward to seeing more details! Would you have spare boards for purchase at some point? I'm having a little trouble with the wb8elk.com...
Mark and all, I just updated my website to include a PROJECTS section that will shortly include the Hellscreiber and RTTY transmitter. _http://www.wb8elk.com_...
Thanks Jeff -- You folks have a significant flight program that we would like to regularly include in our ARHAB Launch Announcements, Records and flight...
Ralph Wallio, W0RPK
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Jan 6, 2009 6:12 pm
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For youse guys plagued by forested recovery sites, a keen tip: http://darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin2008-01.html 73 de Mike W5VSI -- Mike Manes...
Hmmmmmm! I wonder if this article was pointed toward anyone in particular due to a recent recovery pic showing axe wielding balloonatics? ;~) 73 Harry KC5TRB...
Harry, You are the King of rescuing payloads from trees! Howard ... From: Harry M <hhm_74115@...> Subject: Re: [GPSL] 2008 Darwin Award: Pining Away To:...
Dear friends, BASE 32 is go for flight on Saturday, 10 January. Launch from DePauw in Greencastle, IN at 16:00 UTC. Landing projected near the Indiana/Ohio...
Dear friends, The weather in Indiana and Ohio is also forecast to be bad tomorrow. Freezing rain and sleet are the nasty part of the forecast. My students...
Dear friends, Poor road conditions in the landing zone have forced us to postpone BASE 32 until Tuesday, January 14 at 16 UTC. Current wind predictions support...
Dear Friends, BASE 32 will be on Tuesday, which is 13 January. Sorry for the confusion. Howard ... From: BASE <basedepauw@...> Subject: [Ballooning] BASE...
Pretty neat story about NASA's mondo superpressure balloon test flight, ultimately capable of 2200 lb neck loads up to 110K'. And it floats there without...