Yes! Tony, W5ADC, will be launching a balloon that will carry my crossband repeater. Uplink: 446.05 pl 110.9, Downlink: 147.500MHz (CSQ) The hardware is an Icom W32A with 8 AA lithium cells. Also,

Michael - that's good because I was unable to secure a recorder from my wife's office today. 73 de Mark N9XTN

Do any of the flights Saturday have crossband repeaters? Is there a list of what each flight will carry? (admit I have not scoured the website, yet)

We will have a few ways to record the sessions, but I will also provide an autonomous audio recorder via an app on an old Apple 5C phone stuck on the podium. I bought the app and it is great for what

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Boring as hell is really good in this case! We started out with Tropics type weather, and until this week, low temps for Texas. But now that GPSL is here, you get to experience the

​Boring as hell, and approximates it in other ways too.... :) Thu-Sun - highs 95-98, lows 73-76. Surface winds Saturday morning should be light from the south (if any breeze at all).​

I agree with Michael. We have radios when we I-Gate from cars it is a side function from what we are already doing. I do it because it makes it easier for people watching the event on APRS. We

Hi James! Not sure where you got the misunderstanding, but almost all the vehicles have APRS radios on board and most of us are very seasoned ARHABr's. You are likely

KD2EAT-13 was literally a *throw it in the air and see if it floats* (I know what you'd say about waterjwe'll get to that in a minute)... it's a WSPR only on 20mtrs (14.0956mhz). Mike (who is

Are any of the chase crews going to have radios onboard? With an APRS capable radio in the chase vehicle, you can hear the payload right down to ground level if you are located close enough to the

I'm planning a floater flight at GPSL. - Bill WB8ELK 1 m/s ascent rate....8000m float altitude for a 36 inch Mylar balloon. Although an alternative would be at 12300 m float since I'm bringing a

My "Tree Nav" firmware has a bug in it...it always finds a tree to land in instead of avoiding it :-) - Bill WB8ELK

I have an Igate running in Pecan now, - just fired it up. Unfortunately I am in a hole, so as the balloons come down, we will lose them. I'll see if I can get this set up at the clubhouse

Kip, What setup are you using? I'd like to i-gate our 144.34 20sec timeslot. I've used aprsdroid, but it only let's you igate yourself. Thanks, -derek

Same here. We will have mobile i-gate capability for 144.39 and maybe 144.34 (we have two setups but our balloons are on 144.39) And we are connecting to the internet with ATT and Sprint. My

K6RPT-12 is somewhere over Canada this morning, out of coverage. It should come over New England tomorrow afternoon. After that, it should be near the Azores Saturday morning (local time) but headed

GPSLers (and those playing at home), I am planning to bring a small pocket camcorder and tripod to record the GPSL presentations. I think I will set it up to just point at the screen, unless the

We'll have mobile internet at least to the limits of Verizon's coverage. It appears some valleys will be in holes, esp. west of Hico and Hamilton. 73 de Mark N9XTN

I wanted to check and see if anyone was planning a small floater for this year's GPSL. Below about 10,000 feet the winds would take a balloon into the DFW airspace. If the Ascent is slow enough we