UAH ATV balloon from Huntsville, AL has moved down to 427.25 MHz...launch will be around 8 am CDT. Might have streaming video starting around 7:30 am CDT?at: ...
We recovered the flight, but ti flew about 20 miles farther than we predicted. The GFS model was predicting winds below 100 mph yesterday (as I recall), but...
All, There are only 2 reasons that the captcha image would not appear. 1) NOAA is busy/down. 2) The user didn't enter a a wx station that is on the list. ...
Hi Everyone We fly two trackers in our payload and one is a home built unit built around the Inventek GPS chip and active antenna. On our last two flights,...
... Did you have the altitude filters turned off? I'm trying to integrate this GPS into my BeeLine transmitter (for rockets), and have seen weird behavior...
Hi Bruce, ? I've flown over a dozen flights with the Inventek module so far.. the Sarantel active helix antenna seems to provide the best performance....but...
Hi Greg I'm not exactly sure what you're referring to when you mention turning the altitude filters off. We haven't tried to do any reconfiguration of the GPS...
There are a number of options available when you talk to the device using the SiRF Binary protocol that you don't get to play with in NMEA mode. Using...
Hi Bill We're seeing between 8 and 10 satellites before burst. After burst it fluctuates wildly claiming between 0 and 8. Once things settle down and it...
All, There are only 2 reasons that the captcha image would not appear. 1) NOAA is busy/down. 2) The user didn't enter a a wx station that is on the list. ...
Hi Greg Ok, what I see is making sense now. I'm not sure what effect turing this off would have though. If it's having problems aquiring satellites would it...
If it's a problem acquiring satellites, then no, this won't help. If the problem is that you DO have lock, yet the altitude doesn't appear to be reported...
Hi Greg Very interesting stuff. Thanks for the explanation. Winter is rapidly approaching so it looks like my experimenting will have to wait until spring. ...
Dear friends, The 40th flight of the BASE program is ready for Wednesday morning at 1210 UTC (8:10 EDT) from the football field at Greencastle High School....
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=370271664154 While not explicit on the label, it has the code "J352-4" on it, which through a Google search...
The description is on page #30. https://www.fbo.gov/download/cba/cba233d1556fee93cb592c2dcbc7ecb1/Solicitation_DG133W-08-RP-0060.pdf We used a similar one on...
Dear friends, BASE 40 was successfully completed today. Launch was about 8 minutes late in a light rain. Launch at 1218 UTC from southwest corner of track...
Unless I'm missing something, I don't see any spec that states these are 600 gram balloons...just looking at the photo seems like it's smaller than a 600 gram...
I finally found it: http://www.geo-nwsjan.msstate.edu/docs/chapters/Chpt-10.pdf Page 10-10 does indeed state that the GP26KM is the new designator for what...
A 600g Totex can make 90K' at 1000 fpm with up to 2 lb hanging off the neck. That's a typical parachute and a APRS beacon and not much more. 73 de Mike W5VSI ...
Hi Mike and all, ? Yep....600 grams can make a decent altitude with small payloads...exactly why I went ahead and bought a few of these from that eBay auction...
Hi I'm doing a presentation for the Saskatoon Amateur Radio Club on Tuesday night about our trip to GPSL. I wanted to use "We're not in Kansas anymore" image...
All the images are still on the 2010 page. Just scroll down and look on the right side of the page. If there is any special image you want full size let me...
Hi Keith It's the picture at the top of the we page that I'm looking for. The current one reads "Up-Up and Away". Does the one from the top of the 2009 page...
All the images are still on the 2010 page. Just scroll down and look on the right side of the page. If there is any special image you want full size let me...
All the images are still on the 2010 page. Just scroll down and look on the right side of the page. If there is any special image you want full size let me...
The ARBONET team is planning to fly ARBONET 3 on October 17, 2009. This date was chosen to coincide with JOTA, an event where Boy Scouts nation wide (and even...
