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Re: GPSL 2020 - 9-11 July 2020
Bill Brown
Sounds great to me too. Look forward to seeing you all at GPSL 2020. -Bill WB8ELK
On Sep 15, 2019, at 4:46 PM, Mark Conner N9XTN <mconner1@...> wrote:
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Re: GPSL 2020 - 9-11 July 2020
Keith Kaiser, WA0̷TJT
Great choice of dates Mark.
Keith, WA0̷TJT
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GPSL 2020 - 9-11 July 2020
Hi everyone, GPSL 2020 is officially set for July 9-11. Friday's events will be at the University of Nebraska-Omaha campus near 62nd and Dodge Streets in Omaha. I know there are some who won't be able to make this date, but there appeared to be fewer conflicts for the July weekend than for Field Day weekend. We will have events during the day on Thursday and a Thursday evening welcome dinner. Lunch Friday will probably be at the student center on campus which is a short walk from the classroom. We'll also have a dinner on Friday evening. Hope to see you next summer! 73 de Mark N9XTN
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Pico AK0SK-11 launched
Launched the WB8ELK Skytracker last Sunday. It is now at the coast of Portugal.
-Sila.
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CNSP round-the-world flights in progress
KA6TVU-11 has completed one lap and is over Saskatchewan this morning. KA6TVU-12 is in Southern Europe - was launched a few days later. 73 de Mark N9XTN
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Re: ublox max 7
Bill Brown
The uBlox Max technical reference datasheet shows the response. I will look it up when i get off work. -Bill WB8ELK
On Aug 24, 2019, at 4:53 PM, Nick Pugh K5QXJ <quadpugh@...> wrote:
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Re: ublox max 7
Nick Pugh K5QXJ
What should I expect as a response from the checkNav command. Is there a document that describes this command.
On Tuesday, August 20, 2019, 04:01:18 PM CDT, Nick Pugh K5QXJ <quadpugh@...> wrote:
Tnx for the info nick
nick
Cell 337 258 2527
Helping UL become a world Class Engineering and Educational School Disagree I Learn
From: wb8elk@... <wb8elk@...>
You have to set the MAX-7Q up for Airborne mode to make it work and it will fail at 40,000 feet if you don't. - Bill WB8ELK
Here is how I do it:
============================================ unsigned char setNav[] = { 0xB5, 0x62, 0x06, 0x24, 0x24, 0x00, 0xFF, 0xFF, 0x06, 0x03, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x10, 0x27, 0x00, 0x00, 0x05, 0x00, 0xFA, 0x00, 0xFA, 0x00, 0x64, 0x00, 0x2C, 0x01, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x16, 0xDC };
// Set uBlox MAX series to Airborne Mode
for(int i=0; i<44; i++){ // Serial.write(setNav[i]); } ============================================
// The whole GPS_setup routine:(put the setNav array shown above in Global variable section or in the function)
// ****************************************/ void setupGPS() // ***************************************** { // setup serial port for u-Blox MAX-7C GPS new 110115 Serial.begin(9600); // to talk to GPS Modem via RX and TX pins 0 and 1 delay(10); Serial.flush(); delay(10);
// Configure uBlox MAX to only output GGA and RMC messages Serial.println("$PUBX,40,GLL,0,0,0,0*5C"); delay(1000); // Serial.println("$PUBX,40,GGA,0,0,0,0*5A"); // delay(1000); Serial.println("$PUBX,40,GSA,0,0,0,0*4E"); delay(1000); // Serial.println("$PUBX,40,RMC,0,0,0,0*47"); // delay(1000); Serial.println("$PUBX,40,GSV,0,0,0,0*59"); delay(1000); Serial.println("$PUBX,40,VTG,0,0,0,0*5E"); delay(3000);
// Set up uBlox MAX series to Airborne Mode for(int i=0; i<44; i++){ // Serial.write(setNav[i]); }
delay(500);
Serial.end(); // new 110115
return; } // ---------------end of setupGPS()----------------------/
You can check to see if you have successfully configured the uBlox MAX to be set for Airborne mode by looking at the response to this command:
unsigned char checkNav[] = {0xB5, 0x62, 0x06, 0x24, 0x00, 0x00, 0x2A, 0x84};
for(int i=0; i<sizeof(checkNav); i++){ Serial.write(checkNav[i]); }
-----Original Message----- The sat team and the University of Louisiana wants to fly a Ublox max7 and would like to know the string to send to make it work > 18,000 meters
nick
Cell 337 258 2527
Helping UL become a world Class Engineering and Educational School Disagree I Learn
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Re: University Project Teams using Balloons?
Bill Brown
University of Alabama Huntsville had a BalloonSat course for almost a decade as a ECE senior design project. We launched over 60 balloons. It sadly was discontinued. However they have a Space Hardware Club that flies balloon payloads each semester. -Bill WB8ELK
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On Aug 23, 2019, at 9:20 AM, Michael Hojnowski <kd2eat@...> wrote:
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Re: University Project Teams using Balloons?
Jeff Ducklow
You might consider making contacts by leveraging NASA’s Space Grant Network. It is quite large and typically connected with big universities across the USA.
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Here is a Link: https://www.nasa.gov/offices/education/programs/national/spacegrant/about/index.html From that web site: "The Space Grant national network includes over 850 affiliates from universities, colleges, industry, museums, science centers, and state and local agencies. These affiliates belong to one of 52 consortia in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. I know that University of Minnesota is a part of NASA’s Space Grant Network. They have an active group of students that are pursing science with Rocketry and HAB. Jeff Ducklow MerryBerry Galactic N0NQN
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Re: University Project Teams using Balloons?
Mike, Here are a few possible matches: Stanford: https://stanfordssi.org/teams/balloons Embry-Riddle: http://pages.erau.edu/~isenberd/research/ballooning.html Cal - Berkeley: https://stac.berkeley.edu/project/balloon Maine: https://umaine.edu/hab/ Iowa State: https://m2i.aere.iastate.edu/habet/ (Matthew Nelson is a good connection to the Stratospheric Ballooning Association, which could yield more schools, see: https://www.stratoballooning.org/ or https://www.facebook.com/stratoballooning/ ) University of Southern Indiana: http://usinearspace.com/ Metropolitan Community College Omaha Nebraska might have some interest: http://nearspacescience.com/ Howard, KC9QBN BASE_DePauw
On Fri, Aug 23, 2019 at 10:20 AM Michael Hojnowski <kd2eat@...> wrote: Hey Gang, -- Howard L. Brooks Professor of Physics and Astronomy 241 Julian Science and Mathematics Center DePauw University 2 E. Hanna Street Greencastle, IN 46135 hlbrooks@... Office: (765) 658-4653 FAX: (765) 658-4732
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University Project Teams using Balloons?
Michael Hojnowski
Hey Gang,
So a colleague here at Cornell is entering his PHD program in Atmospheric Sciences, and is quite interested in balloons. He may well do a thesis using superpressure balloons. Anyway, he is also working with his professor, and interested in kicking off a student project team to do HAB related projects. At Cornell, we have a TON of project teams that compete with other universities. We have autonomous vehicles, drones, submarines, rocket teams, just to name a few engineering related ones. Anyway, it looks like he may create a "Balloon Team". The problem is, we're not aware of any other Universities doing a similar thing. Does anyone know of other schools doing such stuff? Competition leads to innovation!!!! :-) Mike / KD2EAT Advisor, Amateur Radio Club at Cornell
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Re: ublox max 7
Nick Pugh K5QXJ
Tnx for the info nick
nick
Cell 337 258 2527
Helping UL become a world Class Engineering and Educational School Disagree I Learn
From: wb8elk@... <wb8elk@...>
You have to set the MAX-7Q up for Airborne mode to make it work and it will fail at 40,000 feet if you don't. - Bill WB8ELK
Here is how I do it:
============================================ unsigned char setNav[] = { 0xB5, 0x62, 0x06, 0x24, 0x24, 0x00, 0xFF, 0xFF, 0x06, 0x03, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x10, 0x27, 0x00, 0x00, 0x05, 0x00, 0xFA, 0x00, 0xFA, 0x00, 0x64, 0x00, 0x2C, 0x01, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x16, 0xDC };
// Set uBlox MAX series to Airborne Mode
for(int i=0; i<44; i++){ // Serial.write(setNav[i]); } ============================================
// The whole GPS_setup routine:(put the setNav array shown above in Global variable section or in the function)
// ****************************************/ void setupGPS() // ***************************************** { // setup serial port for u-Blox MAX-7C GPS new 110115 Serial.begin(9600); // to talk to GPS Modem via RX and TX pins 0 and 1 delay(10); Serial.flush(); delay(10);
// Configure uBlox MAX to only output GGA and RMC messages Serial.println("$PUBX,40,GLL,0,0,0,0*5C"); delay(1000); // Serial.println("$PUBX,40,GGA,0,0,0,0*5A"); // delay(1000); Serial.println("$PUBX,40,GSA,0,0,0,0*4E"); delay(1000); // Serial.println("$PUBX,40,RMC,0,0,0,0*47"); // delay(1000); Serial.println("$PUBX,40,GSV,0,0,0,0*59"); delay(1000); Serial.println("$PUBX,40,VTG,0,0,0,0*5E"); delay(3000);
// Set up uBlox MAX series to Airborne Mode for(int i=0; i<44; i++){ // Serial.write(setNav[i]); }
delay(500);
Serial.end(); // new 110115
return; } // ---------------end of setupGPS()----------------------/
You can check to see if you have successfully configured the uBlox MAX to be set for Airborne mode by looking at the response to this command:
unsigned char checkNav[] = {0xB5, 0x62, 0x06, 0x24, 0x00, 0x00, 0x2A, 0x84};
for(int i=0; i<sizeof(checkNav); i++){ Serial.write(checkNav[i]); }
-----Original Message----- The sat team and the University of Louisiana wants to fly a Ublox max7 and would like to know the string to send to make it work > 18,000 meters
nick
Cell 337 258 2527
Helping UL become a world Class Engineering and Educational School Disagree I Learn
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Re: ublox max 7
Bill Brown
You have to set the MAX-7Q up for Airborne mode to make it work and it will fail at 40,000 feet if you don't. - Bill WB8ELK
Here is how I do it:
============================================
unsigned char setNav[] = {
0xB5, 0x62, 0x06, 0x24, 0x24, 0x00, 0xFF, 0xFF, 0x06, 0x03, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x10, 0x27, 0x00, 0x00, 0x05, 0x00, 0xFA, 0x00, 0xFA, 0x00, 0x64, 0x00, 0x2C, 0x01, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x16, 0xDC };
// Set uBlox MAX series to Airborne Mode
for(int i=0; i<44; i++){ //
Serial.write(setNav[i]);
}
============================================
// The whole GPS_setup routine:(put the setNav array shown above in Global variable section or in the function)
// ****************************************/
void setupGPS()
// *****************************************
{
// setup serial port for u-Blox MAX-7C GPS new 110115
Serial.begin(9600); // to talk to GPS Modem via RX and TX pins 0 and 1
delay(10);
Serial.flush();
delay(10);
// Configure uBlox MAX to only output GGA and RMC messages
Serial.println("$PUBX,40,GLL,0,0,0,0*5C");
delay(1000);
// Serial.println("$PUBX,40,GGA,0,0,0,0*5A");
// delay(1000);
Serial.println("$PUBX,40,GSA,0,0,0,0*4E");
delay(1000);
// Serial.println("$PUBX,40,RMC,0,0,0,0*47");
// delay(1000);
Serial.println("$PUBX,40,GSV,0,0,0,0*59");
delay(1000);
Serial.println("$PUBX,40,VTG,0,0,0,0*5E");
delay(3000);
// Set up uBlox MAX series to Airborne Mode
for(int i=0; i<44; i++){ //
Serial.write(setNav[i]);
}
delay(500);
Serial.end(); // new 110115
return;
}
// ---------------end of setupGPS()----------------------/
You can check to see if you have successfully configured the uBlox MAX to be set for Airborne mode by looking at the response to this command:
unsigned char checkNav[] = {0xB5, 0x62, 0x06, 0x24, 0x00, 0x00, 0x2A, 0x84};
for(int i=0; i<sizeof(checkNav); i++){
Serial.write(checkNav[i]);
}
-----Original Message-----
From: Nick Pugh K5QXJ <quadpugh@...> To: GPSL <GPSL@groups.io> Sent: Tue, Aug 20, 2019 3:08 pm Subject: [GPSL] ublox max 7 The sat team and the University of Louisiana wants to fly a Ublox max7 and would like to know the string to send to make it work > 18,000 meters
nick
Cell 337 258 2527
Helping UL become a world Class Engineering and Educational School
Disagree I Learn
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ublox max 7
Nick Pugh K5QXJ
The sat team and the University of Louisiana wants to fly a Ublox max7 and would like to know the string to send to make it work > 18,000 meters
nick
Cell 337 258 2527
Helping UL become a world Class Engineering and Educational School Disagree I Learn
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Re: GPSL 2020 dates
I'm working through him and his wife Kendra for the UNO portion of GPSL 2020. Paul and I had a great launch with them at the Nebraska Star Party last year. - Mark
On Fri, Aug 9, 2019 at 1:59 PM BASE_DePauw <hlbrooks@...> wrote:
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Re: GPSL 2020 dates
I agree with Bill about cooperating with the school HAB program. Nebraska has a very active program through
Michael Sibbernsen and NASA Space Grant Nebraska.
On Fri, Aug 9, 2019 at 12:52 PM Bill Brown via Groups.Io <wb8elk=aol.com@groups.io> wrote:
-- Howard L. Brooks Professor of Physics and Astronomy 241 Julian Science and Mathematics Center DePauw University 2 E. Hanna Street Greencastle, IN 46135 hlbrooks@... Office: (765) 658-4653 FAX: (765) 658-4732
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Re: GPSL 2020 dates
Bill Brown
Sounds like it would be a plus to be concurrent with the K-12 UNO event in July. I do a lot of outreach flights with K-12 students lately concentrating on 5th and 6th grades. I would welcome K-12 educators and students to attend our talks and Superlaunch on Saturday. Perhaps you can arrange some joint sessions with them on Both thurs and friday and i think many of us would love to fly some K-12 experiments. -Bill WB8ELK
On Aug 9, 2019, at 10:44 AM, Mark Conner N9XTN <mconner1@...> wrote:
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Re: GPSL 2020 dates
Bill Brown
Mark. Although i can attend either date my strong preference is for the July date due to FD conflicts. I try to launch a balloon from local FD clubs each year. -Bill WB8ELK
On Aug 9, 2019, at 10:44 AM, Mark Conner N9XTN <mconner1@...> wrote:
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Re: GPSL 2020 dates
Garrett, Mark
Mark: I plan on attending GPSL 2020, enjoy the event and not that long of a drive for me. I would agree that having it Field Day weekend would not be ideal. We would need to alter the time of launch till Saturday afternoon for it to have been effective to generate contacts for contest and the range of that kind of participation would only be in a 200 mile distance or less as most Field Day utilize temporary antennas at an elevation they can safely erect. Best left for contest groups to launch balloons in their regions that have that capability. My vote would be the sooner the better in holding the event as the corn will get taller the humidity and bugs will increase later in July but if the event is later it won't affect my plans not to attend. Mark KA9SZX
On Fri, Aug 9, 2019 at 10:45 AM Mark Conner N9XTN <mconner1@...> wrote:
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Mark Garrett Tri States Public Radio
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Re: GPSL 2020 dates
Thanks everyone for the feedback provided so far. It appears either weekend will work for the UNO venue. If we do it in July, we will be concurrent with a K-12 HAB forum UNO is planning, but that will not interfere with us - they can support both. If you are considering attending GPSL 2020 but have not expressed a preference, please let me know either on or off-list. Also let me know if that if you do have a preference, whether you can or can't come on the alternate date. Most of you who have sent preferences have done this, and I'll follow up if you didn't. 73 de Mark N9XTN
On Tue, Aug 6, 2019 at 1:16 PM Mark Conner <mconner1@...> wrote:
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